Topics include: Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia, Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization, Japan's Dominance and Multi- Racial Coalitions in Malaysia.

This study of Yasunari Kawabata, Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature and the most widely known for his novels Snow Country (1960) and Sound of the Mountain (1970), aims both to reinforce the extraordinary phenomenon of scholarly neglect of one of Japan's 20th-century, though highly controversial, literary giants and to demonstrate the fact that Kawabata's ultimate recognition in the West is entirely warranted.

Topics include: Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia, Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization, Japan's Dominance and Multi- Racial Coalitions in Malaysia.