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The Japanese Today - Change and Continuity, Enlarged Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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The Japanese Today - Change and Continuity, Enlarged Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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Japan, like the rest of the world, has undergone enormous changes
in the last few years. The impact of the end of the Cold War has
combined with a worldwide recession to create a fluid situation in
which long-held assumptions about politics and policies no longer
hold. A classic, short history of Japan, this book has been brought
up-to-date by Marius Jansen, now our most distinguished interpreter
of Japanese history. Jansen gives a lucid account and analysis of
the events that have rocked Japan since 1990, taking the story
through the election of Murayama as prime minister. About the
previous edition: With the two-thousand-year history of the
Japanese experience as his foundation, Edwin O. Reischauer brings
us an incomparable description of Japan today in all its complexity
and uniqueness, both material and spiritual. His description and
analysis present us with the paradox that is present-day Japan:
thoroughly international, depending for its livelihood almost
entirely on foreign trade, its products coveted everywhere-yet not
entirely liked or trusted, still feared for its past military
adventurism and for its current economic aggressiveness. Reischauer
begins with the rich heritage of the island nation, identifying
incidents and trends that have significantly affected Japan's
modern development. Much of the geographic and historical material
on Japan's earlier years is drawn from his renowned study The
Japanese, but the present book deepens and broadens that earlier
interpretation: our knowledge of Japan has increased enormously in
the intervening decade and our attitudes have become more
ambivalent, while Japan too has changed, often not so subtly.
Moving to contemporary Japanese society, Reischauer explores both
the constants in Japanese life and the aspects that are rapidly
changing. In the section on government and politics he gives pithy
descriptions of the formal workings of the various organs of
government and the decision-making process, as well as the most
contentious issues in Japanese life-pollution, nuclear power,
organized labor-and the elusive matter of political style. In what
will become classic statements on business management and
organization, Reischauer sketches the early background of trade and
commerce in Japan, contrasts the struggling prewar economy with
today's assertive manufacturing, and brilliantly characterizes the
remarkable postwar economic miracle of Japanese heavy industry,
consumer product development, and money management. In a final
section, "Japan and the World," he attempts to explain to skeptical
Westerners that country's growing and painful dilemma between
neutrality and alignment, between trade imbalance and "fair"
practices, and the ever-vexing issue of that embodiment of Japanese
specialness, a unique and difficult language that affects personal
and national behavior.
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