The Outnation: A Search for the Soul of Japan
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Book Overview
In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influence in world affairs, that is the outsider-the outnation: a country, as some have said, in the world but not of it. How different is this industrial superpower? Why did its fast climb to the pinnacle of the global economy also contain the causes of its subsequent fall? And what can we all-Americans...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1949450031
ISBN13:9781949450033
Release Date:December 2021
Publisher:Acorn Abbey Books
Length:222 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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One of the best short books on modern Japan
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Jonathan Rauch wrote this book more than a decade ago. However, many travelers to Japan still find it one of the best introductions to Japanese society available in English. His profiles of people,places and social mores are insightful as well as elegantly written. Whenever I meet someone on their way to Japan for the first time, I almost reflexively offer them a copy of this fine book.
Beautifully written, insightful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This extraordinarily well-written book came out during a time when Americans were told that Japan was invincible, threatening, and a model society. Jonathan Rauch saw a more complex Japan, one with great strengths but also great difficulties, especially in generating criticism and change from within. His portrait has stood the test of time when many acclaimed "experts" now look like fools.
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