Dogs and Demons
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Dogs and Demons
Tales form the dark side of modern Japan
by Alex Kerr
Hill and Wang, April 2001. 431pp. with notes & index
ISBN: 0809095211
Finishing reading Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr which tries to answer the question of why Japan has failed to modernise. It’s an extremely well-researched book and a must-read for anyone interested in how not to run a country. It’s in desperate need of some editing, though; repetitive and too loosely-structured. The arguments, however, pack a real punch.
The key question is: Why should Japan have fallen into any pitfall, when the nation had everything? It reveled in one of the world’s most beautiful natural environments […] it preserved one of the richest cultural heritages on earth […] it boasted one of the world’s best educational systems and was famed for its high technology; its industrial expansion after World War II drew admiration everywhere, and the profits accumulated in the process made it perhaps the richest nation in the world.
At yet instead of building the glorious new civilization that was its birthright, Japan went into an inexplicable tailspin in the 1990s.
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Posted to Books • 2001.11.02 (Fri) • 01:47
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Posted by LK 2005.09.19, 21:22
Japan is still #1, but they dont control the media.. so they dont actually had a falldown, just others wanted it to appear so.
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