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The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Among Equals Hardcover – January 1, 1991

by Shintaro Ishihara (Author), Frank Baldwin (Translator), Ezra Vogel (Foreword)

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Asserts that Japan has overtaken the United States economically, technologically, and politically

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Simon & Schuster
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January 1, 1991
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8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
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0671726862
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978-0671726867
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ALBERTO NAVARRO

THE JAPAN THAT CAN SAY NO.

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2022

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EXCELENTE SIX STARS.
FOR ADMIRERS OF TRADITIONAL JAPAN
AND EAST ASIA, LIKE ME, THIS IS THE
PROPER BOOK, IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1990
BY SHINTARO ISHIHARA A NATIONALIST
JAPANESE LEADER,ONE OF MY FAVOURITE
LEADERS OF THE CURRENT ERA.
OF COURSE THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR THE
NARROW MINDED OF SOME WESTERN AUDIENCES WITH THEIR INGRAINED
SUPERIORITY COMPLEX, THE BOOK DEALS
WITH THE CONDESCENDING WAY THAT
JAPAN HAS BEEN TREATED BY THE US
SINCE THE END OF THE PACIFIC WAR AND
THE SERVILISM OF THE JAPANESE ESTABLISHMENT SINCE THEN,MR ISHIHARA HAD THE COURAGE TO SPEAK UP , HE POINTED OUT THAT AS THE COLD
WAR WAS ENDED, THE US STARTED TO
LOOK FOR NEW ENEMIES,BEING JAPAN AT
THE TOP OF THE LIST, SANCTIONS WERE
IMPLEMENTED IN ORDER TO FORCE JAPAN
TO CHANGE ITS POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL SYSTEM ,WHICH WAS THE
KEY TO ITS PROSPERITY AND ADOPT A
WESTERN TYPE OF UNBRIDLED CAPITALISM, BY THE WAY HE CHALLENGED THE ABSURD CONCEPT OF
MIRACLE, INSTEAD HE SAID THAT THE
JAPANESE PROSPERITY IS PART OF ITS
INGRAINED CULTURE DATING FROM ANCIENT TIMES.
THREE DECADES HAVE PASSED SINCE
THE PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK AND
UNFORTUNATELY JAPAN NOWADAYS HAS
ADOPTED A WESTERN LIBERAL CAPITALIST SYSTEM, THE HARMONIOUS
NATURE OF THE TYPICAL JAPANESE
ECONOMY IS NO LONGER, CULTURALLY
JAPAN IS A FULLY WESTERNIZED COUNTRY, IT BELONGS TO THE G-7
THAT ONLY SERVE THE INTERESTS OF
THE WEST; NOTHING REMAINS OF THIS
ONCE PROUD AND RICH CULTURE.

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Guzman

Instructive of what the US did to hinder Japan's growth. Relevant to what is happening with China.

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2021

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I read this in the early 90's while an employee of SONY. I had to re-read it, given the current geopolitical environment and competition with China, this book is eye opening. If you combine it with other books and current events news, you will see how the USA deals with countries that challenge its economic supremacy. Today, Japan has adopted US style capitalism and the Japanese style company/employee relationship is broken forever. Japanese society has changed since this book was published and the Japanese Salaryman is no more. Those were the days my friends.

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Charlie Richardson

Kinda wordy, lack direction

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013

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The book is okay. The edition you see is sawed in half due to one author refusing to be translated. I guess that is why the book seems kinda self indulgent and wordy. But it is a interesting read into the mindset of the modern Japanese nationalist.

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Asa

Interesing.

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2015

Interesting book.

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2010

"Freedom is not free" is an expression we hear frequently these days. It is usually offered in defense of having a strong military and in support of our latest military overseas adventure or "intervention." This book written, I presume, in the 1980s and reprinted for American consumption without the author's permission in 1991 was written by Shintaro Ishihara. Mr. Ishihara is/was a prominent and outspoken Japanese politician and celebrity. His book provides instruction to us in the often neglected knowledge that "War is not free" either.

Most of us realize the cost of war to our nation. Our dead soldiers, the cost of the "bombs and the bullets," the rehabilitation and medical care for our damaged soldiers and the billions and trillions of taxpayers dollars for the Military Industrial Complex. But not often considered is the future cost of the hate and vindictiveness ingrained into the psyche of our enemies for generations to come.

Mr. Ishihara was just a child when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He lived under the American occupation of Japan and his bitterness towards the U.S. is raging yet in his adulthood.
He can still recount as if it were yesterday how "arrogant" American soldiers bumped him from the sidewalk and threw drinking ice into his face.

He confirms the popular world view that America is a racist nation that troops and tramps around the world bullying everybody.
We dropped the Atomic bombs on Japan and not on Germany because we hate Japanese and Asians, claims the author. Of course, his home country's nefarious endeavors in the tragedy of World War II, are dismissed with an offhanded recognition of "mistakes" that will require some "soul searching" on the part of the Japanese people.

We hear no mention of Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March or the Rape of Nan King. He praises Japan's land redistribution policy after the war. A policy which took the wealth and land from the hands of the few, destroyed Japan feudal system, and created a middle class that boosted the poor as well. But he neglects to mention that the policy was initiated by that American conqueror Douglas MacArthur and not Tojo or Emperor Hirohito.

Though this author has very little to justify his vindictiveness considering his nation's reprehensible part in the holocaust of World War II, his misplaced hatred brings to mind those who may have more justified complaints stemming from more controversial conflicts since the end of World War II.

Freedom may not be free but War is not free, either. The American people will be wise to think of the cost of future generations of hate that come along with using war as a diplomatic tool. The costs of inaction may have consequences. But the costs of military action are guaranteed. And the unintended consequences may go on for generations as we see in countries like Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan Nicaragua, Costa Rica and elsewhere.

But aside from his anti-American rant the book is a positive reading experience. This author is bitter but he is not stupid. It is filled with ideas and criticisms very much justified by the present business and economic goings on here in America.

His sharp denunciations with regards to bloated executive salaries and outrageous bonuses for American corporate elites, the lack of national concern on the part of our politicians, the myopic short term vision of our investment community, the blind neglect of our home industrial base, the abandonment of our educational institutions and college age kids, the stupidity of our off-shoring of our skills and innovations, and our unhealthy attitudes towards labor and those who do the physical work in our businesses and enterprises all ring sadly true.

Many of Mr. Ishihara's criticisms of our new economic Americanism are far from unjustified. And many of his suggested consequences made back in the 80's are collapsing all around us today.

As it is with corn flakes, it would do many Americans well to review this book again for "first" time.

Richard Edward Noble - The Hobo Philosopher - Author of:

"America on Strike" American Labor - History

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