Japan Restored: How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World Kindle Edition
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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
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
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
Does Japan have a future? It does, and a brilliant one, says -- of all people -- Prestowitz. --Japan Times
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
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
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 --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
About the Author
New York Times Bestselling Author Clyde Prestowitz is a long time student of Japan who served as a lead negotiator with Tokyo in his position as Counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. His first book, Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead (Basic Books, 1989), revolutionized thinking about Japan's economic miracle and its relationship with the United States. Prestowitz is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington. He served as Vice Chairman of President Clinton's Commission on Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region, as an advisor to the Export/Import Bank, as a member of Intel's Policy Advisory Committee, and as an advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Indonesia. Prestowitz has also been a blogger for Foreign Policy Magazine and is a prolific contributor to publications such as the Financial Times, New York Times, and L.A.Times. In addition to Trading Places, his books include: Rogue Nation, Basic Books 2003, Three Billion New Capitalists, Basic Books 2005, and The Betrayal of American Prosperity, Simon&Schuster, 2010. He resides in Washington D.C. and Maui.--This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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ASIN : B014GBMJ4I
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing (10 November 2015)
Language : English
File size : 2512 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
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Print length : 290 pages
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De Christian
5.0 out of 5 stars I love all his books I read so farReviewed in Canada on 6 January 2017
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Extremely agreeable writing style and very informative and insightful!
It felt like I went to the orchard in order to pick some apples and I came back with a basket full of apples, plums, peaches and cherries. What I'm trying to say is at first it looks like a book narrowly focused on Japan, but in fact it's about much more than that.
I love all his books I read so far!
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たけボール
3.0 out of 5 stars 平易な英文で読み易いReviewed in Japan on 18 August 2016
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内容は、多分にフィクションが含まれており、参考になるべき提言はあまりない。ただし、平易な英文で書かれているため、英文に慣れる意味では勉強になるように思われる。
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佐藤
4.0 out of 5 stars 佐藤彰Reviewed in Japan on 24 May 2017
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事実誤認も多々あるが、全体として日本人特に若い人々にとり励みになると思う。
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EdM.
5.0 out of 5 stars Japan 2050Reviewed in the United States on 14 November 2015
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Japan Restored, though classed as current affairs, is a combination of both speculative fiction and economics history of the nation. The author starts out with the premise that Japan has become the global power of the twenty-first century through implementation of economic and political measures that propel it beyond all other nations. Throughout the book different aspects of this transformation are examined and though not all are agreeable, most are very plausible. After all, the country has done this twice before with the Restoration period and post war boom until the nineties era. The chapters focus on both past events and how they might be in the near future. Shifts in political alliances and world political events. The role of women in the workforce, technological innovation, and energy independence make for very interesting reading.
Mr. Prestowitz presents a Japan that would be a world leader in many fields such as business, education, technology, and geopolitics. A Japan that would be a pleasure to live and work in and for all nations to emulate. Thirty-five years from now perhaps this book will be looked at as a prophetic outline of the nation. The book certainly will grab your interest as immediately consumed it the same day as it was received. If your interests are in Japanese studies, or economics/business, or Asian political / current affairs there is something here of interest.
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Marshall R. Malden
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is particularly interesting to me because of the my involvement in the exporting of American products to Japan duringReviewed in the United States on 9 January 2016
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Japan Restored is a fascinating recounting of how Japan, during the 70's and 80's, became the innovative and envied world leader in the production and export of the highest quality consumer electronics, automobiles, and other products, as well as its creating and perfecting such concepts as "just-in-time" manufacturing. The author lays out what happened in Japan after the bursting of the real estate and stock market bubble in 1992 that caused the country to go into an innovative and economic slide and losing its competitive edge in many world markets. The reader is then treated to Prestowitz' creative ideas on what Japan can and needs to do during the next 35 years to regain its importance and leadership in the world of 2050 - and why that matters to the U.S. This book is particularly interesting to me because of the my involvement in the exporting of American products to Japan during the 70's and 80's and because I have always liked Japan, its people and culture.
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