Volume 22, Number 12 · July 17, 1975
Vulnerable Japan
By E.J. Hobsbawm
Japan: The Fragile Superpower
by Frank Gibney
Norton, 347 pp., $10.00
Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E.H. Norman
edited by John W. Dower
Pantheon, 497 pp., $5.95 (paper)
A Political History of Japanese Capitalism
by Jon Halliday
Pantheon, 466 pp., $15.95
The Development of Japanese Business 1600-1973
by Johannes Hirschmeier, by Tsunehiko Yui
Harvard University Press, 350 pp., $12.00
Japanese Economic Growth
by Kazushi Ohkawa, by Henry Rosovsky
Stanford University Press, 327 pp., $15.00
Iemoto: The Heart of Japan
by Francis L.K. Hsu
Wiley, 260 pp., $5.95 (paper)
The Japanese Economy in International Perspective
edited by Isaiah Frank
Johns Hopkins, 300 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy
by J.A.A. Stockwin
Norton, 296 pp., $3.95 (paper)
The major fact about Japan is that it is both uniquely like and spectacularly unlike the West. It is alike since, alone among all non-Western societies, it has made a transition from a feudalism remarkably similar to that of Europe to being a capitalist power of the first order. In doing so it has imported 'Westernization' wholesale, to the point where more naïve Americans have from time to time thought of it as essentially a yellow-skinned United States.
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