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Category Archives: Book reviews
Best Books On Japan: A Second Opinion
I have had occasion to second-guess a recent list of best books on Japan. An old joke has it that a newspaper editor is a person who separates the wheat from the chaff, and then prints the chaff. On this … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Book reviews, Japan, Press
Tagged fccj, jeff kingston, number 1 shimbun, the sun also sets
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A message to Japan Forum members
My offer to debate the “basket case Japan” story has generated more heat than light at the National Bureau of Asian Research’s Japan Forum. As a matter of policy, I do not participate in online forums but, as friends have … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Book reviews, Global economy, History, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
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Evening in America
I have been reading two new books on trade (this review was first published in the December 2010 issue of the American Conservative). The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America’s Decline, and How We Must Compete in the … Continue reading
Edwin Reischauer: An ambassador who lied TO his country
John Kennedy’s ambassador to Japan is the subject of a new biography. Unfortunately, as I point out in this review (which was first published in the June 2010 issue of the American Conservative), the author’s agenda has little to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, History, Japan
Tagged cartel, detroit, galbraith, harvard, japan, mercantilism, packard, reischauer, renault, wanted: an asian policy
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A reviewer who has read the book
The American radio industry’s top liberal talk show host has had some nice things to say about my book on China. That’s flattering. What’s even more flattering is that he has read the book. Really read it, that is. One … Continue reading
A message for the Times: Justice delayed is justice denied
The New York Times prides itself on its uniquely high standards of accuracy and fairness. So why did its overseas edition take so long to correct the record when I was misrepresented a year ago? For nearly a year I … Continue reading
Iris Chang: Elegy for a brave writer
Iris Chang was a Chinese-American author and historian who took her own life in 2004. As Paula Kamen recounts in a new biography, Chang had challenged the establishments of two of the world’s most powerful nations. [This review was first … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, China, History, Press, Sino-Japanese relations
Tagged advertising pressure, bataan, charles burress, clustering, counterpunch, ian buruma, iris chang, nanking, newsweek, paula kamen, Sino-Japanese relations, the wages of guilt, urbana-champaign, war compensation
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Dangerous Business: A devastating account of the downside of globalism
Pat Choate has written the ultimate riposte to the radical globalists who dominate policy-making in Washington. [This review first appeared in the September 15, 2008 issue of Manufacturing & Technology News.] Americans of a certain age know that something is … Continue reading
The decline of the American empire: An expert witness’s account
Senator Ernest F. Hollings’s recently published autobiography, Making Government Work, is wise, well-written, and consistently absorbing. Rarely has Senator Fritz Hollings used his renowned wit to more devastating effect than when he was interviewed in 1990 on the ABC program, … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Book reviews, Global economy, History
Tagged abc, bob kennedy, buckley v. valeo, ernest f. hollings, gramm, hairpiece, rudman, sam donaldson
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