Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan - Hardcover

Kerr, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809095211 ISBN 13: 9780809095216

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, 2001

Synopsis

A trenchant analysis of modern-day Japan explores the negative side of the country's economic prosperity, from drab architecture to the failure of bureaucratic systems. 10,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Keen insight into the unique causes and disastrous results of the once heralded 'Japan Model' of development . . . a must read." --Michael Judge, "The Wall Street Journal"
"Should be required reading for anyone who writes about or studies the Japanese economy . . . " --Eric Johnston, "The Japan Times"

Keen insight into the unique causes and disastrous results of the once heralded 'Japan Model' of development . . . a must read. "Michael Judge, The Wall Street Journal"

Should be required reading for anyone who writes about or studies the Japanese economy . . . "Eric Johnston, The Japan Times""

"Keen insight into the unique causes and disastrous results of the once heralded 'Japan Model' of development . . . a must read." --Michael Judge, The Wall Street Journal

"Should be required reading for anyone who writes about or studies the Japanese economy . . . " --Eric Johnston, The Japan Times

About the Author:

Alex Kerr, educated at Yale, Oxford, and Keio Universities, is the author of many monographs and articles in both Japanese and English. His last book, Lost Japan, was the first by a foreigner to win the Shincho Literary Prize for nonfiction. He now lives in Bangkok.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0809095211
• ISBN 13: 9780809095216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432