Saruta seems to embody the idea of shifting one’s blame to a scapegoat (which is
ironic considering Ohnuki-Tierney’s study saying that monkeys were viewed as
scapegoats for human problems in Tokugawa Japan [Ohnuki-Tierney 1987:64-5]). In
a dream that he has while driving, he arrives with the tape too late and reports that it
is not his fault. When he wakes up, he states that he “doesn’t make blunders