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Japanese writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburô Ôe delivered the first in a series of lectures established at the Center for Japanese Studies to honor political theorist Masao Maruyama. In his Maruyama Lecture, "The Language of Masao Maruyama," he focuses on the problem of political responsibility in the modern world, taking Maruyama's major work as his point of departure. In a second (unrelated) lecture, "From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer," Kenzaburô Ôe offers an account of his own development as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

SOME SCHOLARS INSIST THAT NUCLEAR ARMAMENT ALONE WILL ENABLE JAPAN TO COUNTER THE MILITARY THREATS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA AND THUS IT SHOULD INTRODUCE THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SYSTEM. IN ESPOUSING THIS VIEW THESE SCHOLARS HAVE SCARCELY ANY RECOGNITION OF THE MISERIES TO BE CAUSED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THEY ONLY SEEM TO BE MOTIVATED BY THEIR ASPIRATTION TO NUCLEAR POWER.

American‐led globalization has enabled the third great powershift of the last five hundred years—the "rise of the rest" following on the rise of the West and then the rise of the US as the dominant power in the West.When China, India, Brazil, Turkey and the rest sit at the table of global power with the West what will the world order look like? Will it be post‐American? Will it be culturally non‐Western, but play by the same rules of an open international order laid down by the American's after World War II?In the following pages, leading American and Asian intellectuals ponder these questions.