Japan as Number One

Posted on 15. Jan, 2009 @ 11:53 am by in Books, Society Views: 825

One of my professors mentioned as an aside in class today that the best selling non-Japanese language non-fiction book in Japan to this day (though, this needs to be verified, he said) is Japan As Number 1 – Lessons For America

Released in 1979, around the period when “Japan Bashing” in the 1980s would become popular due to Japan’s huge trade surpluses with the United States, Japan As Number 1 – Lessons For America
discusses the expectation that Japan would one day overtake the United States as the worlds most productive society.

I have never read this book, but it’s been added to my to-do list.

Have any of the other Japan-heads out there read this book? What did you think?

- Harvey

  • http://www.duzodesign.com Timothy

    Maybe I should pick this up. One of my majors was Economics. I have learned, over time and education, that the US is seriously lacking in productivity.

    The US has become the largest consumer economy. In Japan, from what I understand, things are different. People save much alongside spending. In the US people spend what they have to get what they believe they deserve.

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    Ichiban!

    (That was the semi-official motto for my high school, instituted after the first principal visited Japan back in the late 60s. Incidentally, the school opened as a segregated black high school in 1965 and to this day is still 98% black.)

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