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Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy






Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy

Now, Japan is seen as a has-been with a sluggish economy, an aging population, dysfunctional politics, and a business landscape dominated by yesterday's champions. A quarter-century ago, Tokyo's stock exchange was even bigger than New York's, and the Japanese industrial juggernaut was thought to be unsurpassable. Yet it has not been an easy path military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic dysfunction have made regular appearances from the feudal era to the present. "Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. "A penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural perspective".








Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy