The Japan That Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country

by Dennis Patterson and Dick Beason

In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791460398
• ISBN13: 9780791460399
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"