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Product Description: In The Meaning of Internationalization, Edwin O. Reischauerâformer American Ambassador to Japan and one of the world's most acclaimed scholars of Japanese life and cultureâdelivers a heartfelt message to the Japanese people on the need to look beyond their borders at the changing nature of the world...read more
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9784805310342 | Bilingual edition (Tuttle Pub, May 10, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In The Meaning of Internationalization, Edwin O.
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9781579701901 | Com/bklt edition (Audio-Forum, June 30, 2005), cover price $69.95
With the two-thousand-year history of the Japanese experience as his foundation, Edwin O. Reischauer brings us an incomparable description of Japan today in all its complexity and uniqueness, both material and spiritual. His description and analysis present us with the paradox that is present-day Japan: thoroughly international, depending for its livelihood almost entirely on foreign trade, its products coveted everywhere--yet not entirely liked or trusted, still feared for its past military adventurism and for its current economic aggressiveness.Reischauer begins with the rich heritage of the island nation, identifying incidents and trends that have significantly affected Japan's modern development. Much of the geographic and historical material on Japan's earlier years is drawn from his renowned study The Japanese, but the present book deepens and broadens that earlier interpretation: our knowledge of Japan has increased enormously in the intervening decade and our attitudes have become more ambivalent, while Japan too has changed, often not so subtly.Moving to contemporary Japanese society, Reischauer explores both the constants in Japanese life and the aspects that are rapidly changing. In the section on government and politics he gives pithy descriptions of the formal workings of the various organs of government and the decision-making process, as well as the most contentious issues in Japanese life-pollution, nuclear power, organized labor-and the elusive matter of political style.In what will become classic statements on business management and organization, Reischauer sketches the early background of trade and commerce in Japan, contrasts the struggling prewar economy with today's assertive manufacturing, and brilliantly characterizes the remarkable postwar economic miracle of Japanese heavy industry, consumer product development, and money management. In a final section, "Japan and the World' he attempts to explain to skeptical Westerners that country's growing and painful dilemma between neutrality and alignment, between trade imbalance and "fair" practices, and the ever-vexing issue of that embodiment of Japanese specialness, a unique and difficult language that affects personal and national behavior.
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9780674471832 | Enl sub edition (Belknap Pr, February 1, 1995), cover price $25.01 | About this edition: With the two-thousand-year history of the Japanese experience as his foundation, Edwin O.
9780674471818 | Belknap Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: To reflect America's current understanding of and attitudes toward Japan, the author re-examines Japanese society, personality, government, politics, business organization, and relations with the outside world
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9780674471849 | Enlarged edition (Belknap Pr, March 5, 1995), cover price $33.00
9780674471825 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: To reflect America's current understanding of and attitudes toward Japan, the author re-examines Japanese society, personality, government, politics, business organization, and relations with the outside world
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9780394585277 | 4 sub edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1991), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces Japan's political, social, and cultural evolution and comments on the nation's current problems
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9780075570745 | 4th edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, June 1, 1990), cover price $75.65
9780075543251 | 3 edition (Random House Inc, December 1, 1980), cover price $22.40
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9780860084426 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Book by Duke, Professor Benjamin C.
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9780395258149 | Revised edition (Houghton Mifflin School, April 1, 1989), cover price $35.96
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9780060390549 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author, son of American missionaries, describes his childhood in Japan, his work as a Harvard professor, his term as U.
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9780317363807 | Japan Society Gallery, June 1, 1982, cover price $12.00
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9780471070535 | Univ Microfilms Inc, June 1, 1979, cover price $116.70
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9780674471764 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1977, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The former United States Ambassador to Japan examines, within their historical and geographical settings, the salient characteristics of contemporary Japanese society, personality, politics, and culture and Japan's current and prospective role as a worldpower
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9780674471788, titled "Japanese" | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The former United States Ambassador to Japan examines, within their historical and geographical settings, the salient characteristics of contemporary Japanese society, personality, politics, and culture and Japan's current and prospective role as a worldpower
Product Description: North Sea oil, garden suburbs, socialized medicine, ombudsmen, economic diversification, party politics, relations with the US and the USSR--these are some of the exciting and controversial aspects of Scandinavian life in the 1970s that Franklin Scott explores in this revised and enlarged edition of The United States and Scandinavia...read more
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9780674790001 | Rev enl edition (Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1975), cover price $86.00 | About this edition: North Sea oil, garden suburbs, socialized medicine, ombudsmen, economic diversification, party politics, relations with the US and the USSR--these are some of the exciting and controversial aspects of Scandinavian life in the 1970s that Franklin Scott explores in this revised and enlarged edition of The United States and Scandinavia.
Product Description: One of two texts which introduce East Asian history, both have been rewritten to take account of the changes in China since Mao's death, of Japan's economic success, and of the emergence of Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore as important political and economic powers...read more
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9780405041686 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: One of two texts which introduce East Asian history, both have been rewritten to take account of the changes in China since Mao's death, of Japan's economic success, and of the emergence of Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore as important political and economic powers.
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9780674925809 | 3 edition (Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1965), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An informed discussion of Japan's relations with the West, its geography and economy and a vivid interpretation of Japanese psychology
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