Japan: Who Governs?: The Rise of the Developmental State

ISBN: 0393314502

Author: Johnson, Chalmers

Condition: New

Chalmers Johnson long has been Americas most penetrating, provocative analyst of Japans political economy. . . . The scholarship is superb, and the analysis persuasive and enlightening. . . . An accessible, handy compilation of insights that undergird revisionism [the view that Japans politico-economic system differs far more from the Western model than most Westerners realize]. . . . Juicy insights, such as Johnsons explanation of structural corruption as its revealed by the career of the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, provide more than enough meat to chew on and relish. -Robert Neff, Business Week The godfather of Japanese revisionism, author of MITI and the Japanese Miracle and president of the Japan Policy Research Institute explains how-and why-Japan has become a world power in the past 25 years. Johnson lucidly explains here how the Japanese economy will thrive as it moves from a producer-dominated economy to a consumer-oriented headquarters for all of East Asia.