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Japanese Rage

Name: Japanese Rage
Author: Leon Anderson
ISBN: 9780941423595

by Anderson, Leon, Jr.

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Half a century ago, the U.S. was at war with Japan. That war continues, in a slightly different guise — but no less ruthlessly. Anderson, a businessman & business writer who has had extensive dealings with his Japanese counterparts, argues that Japan has in effect declared economic war on the West, & that the uniquely Japanese combination of public & private interests has launched a real all-out assault on the Western economies. Anderson tells why U.S.-Japanese trade relations have slipped so badly, what caused it & how to turn the situation around. He delves into the subtleties of daily Japanese life, takes a strong position on U.S. faults & makes concrete recommendations.

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Library Journal

This work sets out to provide an answer to Shintaro Ishihara's outspoken criticism of U.S.-Japanese relations, The Japan That Can Say No ( LJ 2/1/91). While more balanced than some earlier responses to Ishihara's book (see, for example, T. Boone Pickens and others' The Second Pearl Harbor , LJ 2/1/92), the message here remains essentially the same, namely, that we are currently in the midst of an economic war with a country that, because of its basic outlook and traditions, is unwilling (or unable) to play fair. Like the earlier works, Japanese Rage attaches too much importance to Ishihara's work, giving it more attention than it deserves as an expression of contemporary Japanese attitudes. In addition, while the work makes some valid points regarding trade problems between the United States and Japan, its attempts at providing a deeper analysis of Japanese history and culture and to use this analysis as a basis for understanding trade problems are extremely superficial. Viewing culture solely through an economic lens is bound to produce distortions, and as a result there is too much paranoia and conspiratorial thinking here. Not recommended.-- Scott Wright, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.