Paranoia or a warning we ignore at our peril? An academic report prepared for the US Central Intelligence Agency by an eight-man team that included retired Xerox Corp group president Frank Pipp and Motorola Inc corporate intelligence director Tim Stone, plus President Reagan’s national Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, concludes that Japan is a fundamentally amoral society that will dominate the world through its economic prowess unless challenged anew by the West: according to the International Herald Tribune, the report, Japan 2000, suggests the possibility of a Japanese-Soviet alliance as a hedge against an almost certain American backlash and characterises the Japanese as racist in their tendency to discriminate against or be suspicious of foreigners, and not democratic because national policy is decided by a tiny elite oligarchy of bureaucrats and politicians; the report suggests that the skill, stamina, perseverence and ability to work together of the Japanese is focused solely on the accrual of greater economic wealth and power, unimpeded by any sense of responsibility for world leadership or global welfare; the hard hitting report continues that The Japanese mission is to accumulate sufficient wealth to satisfy demand at home and create an overall economic position that is unassailable – to be a richer Japan and create a world in which it is possible and safe to continue to make money; geopolitical and ideological issues do not interest the Japanese, they are interested simply in creating climates for their own economic growth.
