Japan restored
Subtitle: how Japan can reinvent itself and why this is important for America and the world
By: Clyde Prestowitz with Hiromi Murakami and William Finan
Contributors: Murakami, Hiromi, author; Finan, William F., author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9784805313466
Subjects: Economic policy; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Foreign economic relations; Economic development; Foreign relations
Description: "How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World. In 1979, the book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America by Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel caused a sensation in the United States by pointing out that Japan was surpassing America as world economic leader; the book remains to this day the all-time bestseller in Japan of non-fiction by a Western author. The book was timely: Japan's subsequent "bubble era" of the 1980s saw the country booming. But since the economic bubble burst at the start of the 1990s, Japan has been in decline. Japan Restored by Clyde Prestowitz, taking up Vogel's baton, is written as a vision of Japan in the year 2050, when the country's economic recovery has made it a world leader in every area of human endeavor. Prestowitz looks back to the year 2014 as such a low point for Japan that a special reform commission was set up that helped the country regain its former position as a leader in technology, in business, and geopolitically. Looking at education, innovation, the role of women, corporate organization, energy, infrastructure, domestic government, and international alliances Prestowitz draws up a fascinating and controversial blueprint for the future success of Japan. As the eyes of the world turn towards Japan in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, Japan Restored is as timely as the 1979 Vogel book that inspired it"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Bookends; title: Tokyo, 2050; title: 2016, Year of crises; title: Shifting alliances; title: Women to the rescue; title: Japan becomes an English-speaking country; title: Innovation nation; title: Energy independence; title: From Japan, Inc. to Germany with Japanese characteristics; title: Overthrow of the insiders; title: Up with the people, down with the bureaucrats; title: Why Japan matters to America and the world.