Japan as Number One: Lessons for America

Vogel, Ezra F.

ISBN 10: 0674472152 / ISBN 13: 9780674472150

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1979

About this Item

xi, [1], 272 p. Bibliography. Index. This work analyzes the island's development into one of the world's more effective industrialized states, in terms not only of its economic productivity but also in terms of its ability to effectively govern, to educate its people, to maintain civil society, to manage its energy supply and to control pollution. Very good in good dust jacket. Initials of previous owner on fep. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Japan as Number One: Lessons for America
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674472152
• ISBN 13: 9780674472150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Presumed first edition/first printing.
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  • Industrialization

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Synopsis

Vogel suggests that the methods by which Japan twice modernized its institutions--late in the nineteenth century and again after World War II--may aid America in rethinking its own societal difficulties

About the Author

Ezra Vogel is Professor of Socialogy and Chariman of the Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University.