Volume 32, Number 5 · March 28, 1985
Japan Victorious
By Murray Sayle
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes
by Ian Buruma
Pantheon, 242 pp., $16.95
Japan in the Passing Lane: An Insider's Account of Life in A Japanese Auto Factory
by Satoshi Kamata, translated and edited by Tatsuru Akimoto, introduction by Ronald Dore
Pantheon, 211 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Trade War: Greed, Power, and Industrial Policy on Opposite Sides of the Pacific
by Steven Schlossstein
Congdon and Weed, 296 pp., $17.95
Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the "Japanese Miracle"
by Jared Taylor
Morrow, 336 pp., $14.95
The Management Challenge: Japanese Views
edited by Lester C. Thurow
MIT Press, 230 pp., $14.95
The Japanese Conspiracy: The Plot to Dominate Industry Worldwide — and How to Deal with It
by Marvin J. Wolf
Empire, 336 pp., $13.95
By the time the last car and calculator, machine tool and videotape recorder are totted up, Japan's trade surplus with the United States for 1984 is going to be close to $36 billion, nearly double that of 1983 and the biggest ever recorded, anywhere. Americans are voting with their credit cards for Japanese products, mostly invented in America, all items Americans used to make for themselves. The sections of American industry that are feeling hard pressed, i.e., most of them, charge that the Japanese success is owed to dumping, cheating, lying, sweated labor, and other unsavory and un-American practices. The Japanese say that they have been maligned and misunderstood.
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