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Japan as-anything but-number one
- Title
- Japan as-anything but-number one / Jon Woronoff.
- Author
- Woronoff, Jon.
- Publication
- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HN723.5 .W67 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 333 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Is Japan No 1? Well, maybe it is if you only consider those sectors where it has been particularly successful. But not if you add many others where its performance was mediocre or worse." "Is Japan No 1? Well, maybe it is if you are taken in by the tatemae, i.e. the official version or how its admirers like to picture it. But it does not look so great once you perceive the honne, i.e. the realities of life in Japan." "No, the author does not think that Japan is a horrible place or that its leaders have made a complete mess of things. But, if you look closely, it is certainly not the extraordinary success it is frequently claimed to be. It is closer to the mean, with many serious problems that will only get worse if people foolishly assume it is No 1"--Jacket.
- Subject
- Note
- Previous edition: 1991.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-294) and index.
- ISBN
- 0333658248
- 9780333658246
- 0333658256
- 9780333658253
- OCLC
- ocm36085947
- 36085947
- SCSB-8979729
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library