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Category Archives: Japan
I told you so (cont’d)
In 1999 I wrote a book that foreshadowed the collapse of America’s New Economy stock boom. I went on to publish a paperback version with a new introduction — an introduction whose prescience has also stood the test of time. … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Service economy, Trade
Tagged "trade-deficits-don't-matter", alan abelson, alfred eckes, allan sloan, bertelsmann, chalmers johnson, devaluation, greenspan, hollings, jim grant, john cassidy, lexisnexis, marshall auerback, ohmae, optical fiber, ottoman, pat buchanan, pat choate, robert heller, tariffs, unsustainable
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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
Boeing, Boeing,….Gone: An article revisited
In a cover story in the American Conservative in January 2005, I documented the remarkable degree to which East Asian governments have been persuading the Boeing corporation to transfer proprietary American aerospace technology. Soon afterwards Unsustainable.org crashed and it was … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
Tagged 787, Airbus, alan macpherson, b-47, boeing, dassault, david pritchard, harry stonecipher, hollowing out, louis uchitelle, mcdonnell douglas, open kimono, outsourcing, pat choate, r&d management, seattle, sphere of influence, thornton wilson
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Pursuing prosperity: Address to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
This is the abstract of a keynote address delivered I made at a conference organized by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev on November 13, 2008. One of my most vivid childhood memories was watching Sputnik streak across the … Continue reading
A heated banker and a hurt professor
Now that the American economy has been revealed to everyone (not just to readers of my books) as a house of cards, I thought it might be safe to suggest that things in 1990s Japan weren’t all that bad. Two … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Press, Trade
Tagged alexander kinmont, bill emmott, dan thomas, danforth thomas, dead fukuzawa society, debate, gillian tett, gregory clark, jesper koll, kenneth courtis, michael porter, minoru makihara, peter hartcher, peter tasker, richard katz, robert feldman, tiananmen massacre
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The Clark-Fingleton discussion
Below, set out in chronological order, is a series of three exchanges between Professor Gregory Clark and me concerning, among other things, the problems for foreign correspondents in reporting the truth from Japan. Clark, a Japan-based educator and columnist for … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, History, Japan, Press, Sino-Japanese relations
Tagged catherine makino, chatham house, courtis, feldman, gillian tett, gregory clark, hallett abend, jesper koll, kinmont, koki hirota, malcolm kennedy, peter o'connor, Sino-Japanese relations, taid o'conroy, takeo tamiya, tasker, vidkun quisling
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Japan then, America now: A misleading comparison
America’s economic crisis today is not like Japan’s in the 1990s. It is far worse. (This article was first published in the Number 1 Shimbun, the magazine of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.) American commentators have been rushing to … Continue reading
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Tagged "bad news" public relations, 787, basket case, can japan compete?, carbon fiber, crash, euromoney, fccj, karen elliott house, mitsubishi, nidec, ohga, okuda, osaka, ottoman, paul krugman, skyscrapers, suzy menkes, titanium, toyota, toyota lexus, wings
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Piranhas in the Amazon system
Authors have always taken on vested interests. Now vested interests have found a new way to strike back. The unsuspecting American public assumes that the rise of online bookstores like Amazon.com has powerfully served the cause of truth. Not necessarily.