Japan Restored: How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World

Prestowitz, Clyde

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 4805313463 ISBN 13: 9784805313466

Verlag: Tuttle Publishing, 2015

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"Thirty years ago, the name Clyde Prestowitz stood for the top Japan basher who was warning the US to get its act together. But the true Prestowitz also had deep respect for Japanese values, was proficient in Japanese, and adopted a Japanese boy as his son. Now, in his latest book, he is advising the Japanese how to get its act together based on his own experience advising the US. It is a worthy read." --Richard C. Koo, Chief Economist, Nomura Research Institute "Ever since Japan successfully challenged American industrial dominance in the 1980s, Clyde Prestowitz has been a leading voice in urging us to think differently about this remarkable and still misunderstood nation. His newest book builds on his rich career in trade and economic policy to probe more deeply into both Japan's persisting problems, and its still enormous potential to remain a creative force in the global economy." --Martin Fackler, The New York Times Bureau Chief, Tokyo "In Clyde Prestowitz's imagining Japan really is back. Its universities and technology are world class, its women fully emancipated, its culture open, its political power devolved, its energy-dependence a thing of the past and its citizenry bilingual in Japanese and English. Fantasy? Absolutely. But Prestowitz draws on decades of policy-making experience to argue that his vision of Japan's future is not only desirable but feasible." --David Pilling, Asia Editor, The Financial Times "Clyde Prestowitz knows Japan well enough to speak about it with authority, likes Japan's people enough to care about their country's future, and is inventive and original-minded enough to have come up with a new way to think about an entire nation's possibilities. This book has the potential to recast discussion of Japan's way ahead. I hope it is widely read in Japan and around the world." --James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly "A reinvigorated, strengthened Japan is crucial to maintaining America's chief strategic interest in the Far East: an East Asian community governed according to the rule of law. Japan Restored is a fine call-to-arms for Japan and its allies." --The Washington Free Beacon "Does Japan have a future? It does, and a brilliant one, says -- of all people -- Prestowitz." --Japan Times "Clyde Prestowitz's new book is one of the more thought-provoking forays into Asian-Pacific geopolitics to have been published in recent years -- at least as noteworthy for its messenger as for its message." --The Washington Post "Labor economist Prestowitz projects visions of Japan's future in this well-handled study of sensitive politico-economic issues disguised as a love letter to the country." -- Publishers Weekly

Reseña del editor:

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 present year 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.