Pacific Rift: Why Americans and Japanese Don't Understand Each Other

ISBN: 039330986X

Author: Lewis, Michael

Condition: New

Lewiss take is often comic, but his message is serious. He sees Japan as it is and sums up the challenge: How can our capitalism beat their capitalism? By keeping his eyes open and asking the right questions, this newcomer comes up with penetrating insights. -William J. Holstein, Business Week In Pacific Rift, the best-selling author of Liars Poker aims his skewering wit at the so-called cultural clash between Japan and the United States. The result is a very different kind of book on U.S.-Japanese business relations. In search of answers, Michael Lewis hits the road to report on the travails of two businessmen: one a rollicking American insurance agent who works in Tokyo, the other a Harvard-educated Japanese man employed by Mitsui Real Estate in New York City. From the Ginza hostess bars of Tokyo to the wine-bottle gangs of Times Square, Lewis dramatizes tragicomic collisions between the two cultures and the basic misconceptions that Americans and Japanese have about each other.