Volume 27, Number 2 · February 21, 1980
Must We Copy Japan?
By Tetsuo Najita
Japan As Number One: Lessons for America
by Ezra F. Vogel
Harvard University Press, 272 pp., $12.50
The Japanese Challenge: The Success and Failure of Economic Success
by Herman Kahn, by Thomas Pepper
Thomas Y. Crowell, 162 pp., $10.00
The opening pages of Japan As Number One: Lessons for America are as much about America as about Japan—less admiring of Japanese accomplishments than troubled by a sense that America is becoming weaker. The Harvard sociologist Ezra Vogel writes that he is 'increasingly preoccupied with what is happening in America, with the decline of our confidence in government, with our difficulty in coping with problems such as crime, urban disorganization, unemployment, inflation, and government deficits,' and he suggests that Americans learn from the Japanese, who seem to him to solve these problems better.
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