Presented September 30, 1995 at the Annual Meeting of the Association Studies, Phoenix, Arizona ABSTRACT: "It is of considerable historical and practical importance to understand how Japan was able, in a relatively short time, to become an economic powerhouse. Many authors have analyzed this situation. Analysis of their writings reveals how little integration of diverse views has been achieved, illustrating the phenomenon of "Spreadthink" in dealing with complexity." Mike, a graduate student in Public Policy, wrote this as part of his graduate assistance ship work while he had a student office in IASIS. John got him to write this, and then he and Mike both went to Arizona for the conference and gave papers in the same session of the conference. This was Mike's very first academic conference paper and he was very nervous, but did a nice job in the presentation, got questions from the audience, and felt very good about it afterward. Mike later got his Ph.d. in public policy. Although he occupied his student office at IASIS quarters for 2-3 years, on John's budget, John was not actually his graduate advisor and did not supervise his dissertation or anything. John just let the Public Policy use his budget to help support grad students, of which Mike was one.