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The Japan That Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country

by Dick Beason (Author), Distinguished Professor of Law Dennis Patterson (Author)

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In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s was long in the making, the authors offer an alternative explanation for Japan's postwar political-economic trajectory and a better understanding of the challenges that Japan currently faces.

ISBN-10

0791460398
ISBN-13

978-0791460399
Publisher

State University of New York Press
Publication date

March 11, 2004
Language

English
Dimensions

6 x 0.72 x 9.26 inches
Print length

226 pages
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"Extremely well written and accessible, this book provides a nice review of the literature, and the authors do a good job of showing why the 1990s have perplexed so many scholars and analysts who had previously predicted the rise of Japanese economic hegemony (and the end of United States hegemony)."

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In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s was long in the making, the authors offer an alternative explanation for Japan's postwar political-economic trajectory and a better understanding of the challenges that Japan currently faces.