A balanced, seemingly unbiased presentation of events of the present century, plus a readable, interesting, brief survey of previous centuries. A good possibility for a text for faculty or students in the community college. Anecdotal record of women's lives in many areas of daily life. A set of essays by leading industrial policy analysts of Japan. It opens windows to the extremely complex relation among bureaucrats, industrialists and politicians in Japan.
Wages go to the family and education is cut off.
Although able women and those with kinship ties are in responsible positions they don't seriously undermine authority along gender lines. Market production of vegetables and more profitable rural industry offers little to women. Komiya, Ryutaro et al, editors, Industrial Policy of Japan Academic Press, Japan, Inc., 1988. A set of essays for the serious scholar on all phases of Japan's industrial policy. The author suggests the real Chinese threat is not communism nor trade, but military expansion, fueled by growing nationalism and no one is paying attention.