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Japan's Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship

Name: Japan's Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship
Author: John Haffner
ISBN: 9781843313113

by John Haffner, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Tomas Casas i Klett

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Overview

In the fast changing modern world where does Japan fit in, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engage and conscientious global citizen.

Synopsis

Where does Japan fit in a rapidly changing world, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engaged and conscientious global citizen.

About the Author, John Haffner

John Haffner moved to Japan in 2001 to study mixed martial arts. While in Japan he was also fortunate enough to find work at McKinsey & Company, where he developed and delivered an advocacy skill development program for senior Tokyo consultants, and coordinated a project to improve McKinsey’s knowledge of foreign-affiliated companies in Japan. Since 2004 Haffner has worked in strategic planning in the energy industry, with extensive experience in electricity regulation, climate change and nuclear policy. Haffner holds five degrees (from King’s, Dalhousie, Queen’s and McGill universities) and was a 2008 World Fellow at Yale University.

Tomas Casas i Klett crossed the Sea of Japan and started a new career in Shanghai a decade ago, after working in Tokyo for three years at the headquarters of a leading Japanese electronics company. He has developed a number of entrepreneurial ventures with Chinese partners that lead him to travel frequently throughout China, his native Spain, and other Western countries. Casas i Klett holds an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in finance and political science, a Master of Science in Business Administration from Fudan University in Shanghai, and a doctorate (Dr.oec) from the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. He teaches entrepreneurship, corporate governance and the practical aspects of doing business in Asia at institutions of higher learning around the world, and is a lecturer at the University of St Gallen.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann first set foot in Japan in 1949 at the age of four, and has had extensive involvement in Japan since that time. Having taught and worked in many other parts of the world, he also offers insights into Japan from a global perspective. Since January 1997 Lehmann has been Professor of International Political Economy at IMD in Lausanne; he is also Founding Director of the Evian Group, a coalition for liberal global governance comprised of business, government and opinion leaders from Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Lehmann was born in 1945, of French nationality. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, and his doctorate on Japanese 19th century economic history from Oxford. He is the author of several books, numerous articles and reports on modern East Asian history and international political economy.

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'Brilliant. It analyses Japan's mistakes and possibilities of development, and it also looks at the future development of the China-Japan relationship. Sometimes onlookers at the outside are the ones who see the inside most clearly.' —Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

'Japan stands at the brink of a major financial crisis… Authors John Haffner, Tomas Casas i Klett and Jean-Pierre Lehmann argue that an economic mega-shock would be helpful for the Japanese economy — throwing it open to new ideas, investments and policies.' —‘The Globalist’

'What needs to done is summed up ‘Japan’s Open Future’. Authors John Haffner, Tomas Casas i Klett and Jean-Pierre Lehmann make a spirited case for a more flexible and globally engaged Japan. They also focus on the real problem: an absence of creative thinking in Tokyo.' —William Pesek, Bloomberg

'Tomas Casas i Klett, co-author of the excellent new book ‘Japan’s Open Future’ warns: ‘The world can digest one mercantilist super economy, but not two’.' —Dan Slater, Finance Asia

'This recent book by Haffner and others, ‘Japan’s Open Future’…will surely stimulate us to reconsider the Japan problem.' —The Shanghai Review of Books in ‘Oriental Morning Post’

'The three Western authors question Japan’s attitude, suggesting new ways forward; Japan should embrace its Asian heritage, while maintaining friendly relations with the Western world. When Japan moves from closedness to openness, it will also bear responsibility for the world’s politics and global economy.' —‘Social Sciences Weekly’

'The argument made by John Haffner, Tomas Casas i Klett, and Jean-Pierre Lehmann – a spirited call for an open, globally minded Japan – is certainly admirable, but I fear that there is little desire for openness and optimism among the Japanese people.' —Tobias Harris, ‘Observing Japan’ blog

'Adds a necessary perspective to the debate. The book provides a reminder that Japan’s economic and political power should not be underestimated just because there are other rising stars in the neighborhood.' —Arudou Debito, ‘Debito.org’

'Japanese people, it's time to become global citizens!' —‘Wenhui Book Review’

'This book effectively chronicles the evolution of the world’s second largest economy from feudal state to nation-state to postmodern state. Recommended.' —C. J. Talele, Columbia State Community College, ‘Choice’