koizumi began in. you have a middle ground in the japanese sinking. it really does not fall down ideological lines, but it is an attendant to the transformation in northeast asia that is ongoing. the ambitions of japan have to be central to the process, but it has been limited in the past. what all of us who watch japan are trying to grapple with is the idea of a loaf of bread being baked. the question in my my mind's -- in my mind, are we seen schools of thought that are challenging what was there before? in my mind, the autonomous have always been there. they have just not been a prophetic agenda. -- pragmatic agenda. where is it going to come from? i have not heard anything yet, and hopefully will disagree with me, that suggests we move out of the four traditional schools of thought in japan. i think we are still in that middle ground, but the agents have shifted. i will not answer your question about 311 and its aftermath, but so much of our scholarship on japan has attempted to interpret the domestic policy preferences here. postwar ideology, whe