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Chapter 3 of the book "Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War" is presented. The chapter focuses on the inclusion of the atomic bomb as a special element of the strategy of shock by the U.S. against Japan during the Second World War. The chapter also addresses the two varying psychological interpretations of the bomb, as a tactical tool and as a "world-shaking event," and how such interpretations changed the discourse surrounding its planned use.

Chapter 1 of the book "New Times in Modern Japan," by Stefan Tanaka is presented. It explores the Meiji period in Japan, and focuses on how the era is considered as one considerable transformation of all aspects of life on the archipelago. It highlights the steps necessary to begin the process of modernization including the discovery and separation of the past.

Chapter 3 of the book "New Times in Modern Japan," by Stefan Tanaka is presented. It examines the Meiji period in Japan and focuses on the factors that made the people fixate in myths, beliefs and artifacts that influenced their way of living. It highlights the attempts of intellectuals to expound the importance of progress in the period.

Chapter 2 of the book "New Times in Modern Japan," by Stefan Tanaka is presented. It explores the Meiji period in Japan and scrutinizes how it detached from myths, and how it inherited knowledge about reality. It focuses on the Japanese folklore "Shuten Doji," and reflects on several tales, superstitions, and beliefs that influence the era's way of living.

An introduction of the book "New Times in Modern Japan," by Stefan Tanaka is presented.

A bibliography on the subject of bureaucracy is presented which includes the book "An Adaptive Model of Bureaucratic Politics," by J. Bendor and T. M. Moe, the newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" in Tokyo, Japan, and the periodicals "Jiji Yoron Tokuho" in Tokyo, Japan.

Chapter Two of the book "The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan," by Junko Kato is presented. It clarifies the relationship between the power interests of the bureaucratic organization and its choice of policies, and show how the organization seeks power interests through policy-making with the use of Japanese tax reform case. It demonstrates value-added tax (VAT) as the Japanese Ministry of Finance's choice as a tax reform alternative.

Chapter 6 of the book "Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization" by Gene I. Rochlin is presented. It discusses the decision of Nicholas W. Leeson of Barings PLC to give up the strategy of matching derivative prices and directly trade them, making purchases of futures on the stock market in Japan. It highlights the disappearance of Leeson, leaving behind him nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars in debts and near contracts with almost 30 billion U.S. dollars in face value.

Chapter Seven of the book "Rice As Self: Japanese Identities Through Time" by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is presented. It highlights rice and rice paddies which represents the collective self of a social group within Japanese society from the smallest unit of a family to Japan as a whole through historical processes. It explores on the collective self of the Japanese that has undergone historical changes, changes that are related to historical developments outside of Japan.

Chapter Six of the book "Rice As Self: Japanese Identities Through Time" by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is presented. It highlights rice as self, rice and rice paddies as dominant metaphors of the Japanese self. It explores on the cultural institutions, including artistic representations and other expressive cultural practices, to show how agrarian cosmology cum ideology has penetrated the day-to-day lives of the Japanese.

Chapter 6 of the book "Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in 20th Century Japan," by William M. Tsutsui is presented. It explores scientific management and the emergence of quality control in Japan during the period 1945-1973. It discusses how the Toyota system failed to address the issue of "humanization" in a meaningful way.

Chapter 5 of the book "Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in 20th Century Japan," by William M. Tsutsui is presented. It explores labor relations and lean production in during the period 1945-1973 in Japan. It discusses the modern management movement that underwent no major changes in leadership after the Second World War defeat.

Chapter 3 of the book "Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in 20th Century Japan," by William M. Tsutsui is presented. It explores Japan's wartime economy and scientific management during the period 1937-1945. It also discusses the major economic transition that marked the economic passage of the country from recovery to mobilization.

Chapter 2 of the book "Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in 20th Century Japan," by William M. Tsutsui is presented. It explores Japan's rationalization movement and scientific management during the period 1927-1937. It also discusses the message and methods of Taylorism during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Chapter 1 of the book "Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in 20th Century Japan," by William M. Tsutsui is presented. It explores the influence of Taylorite methods and ideological axioms in the evolution of Japanese management during the 1910s and 1920s. It also discusses the impact of scientific management in Japan and its influence in the U.S. and Europe.

An introduction of the book "Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in 20th Century Japan" is presented which discusses various issue on broad and active movements to modernize industrial management in twentieth-century Japan.