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...Writers such as James Fallows (More Like Us), Clyde Prestowitz (Trading Places) and Karel van Wolferen (The Enigma of Japanese Power) argue that it is because Japan remains fundamentally different from the U.S. in economy and culture and is committed to playing by unfair rules that discriminate against imports. There is truth in that: Japan is a profoundly communal society organized on almost every level to protect the interests of the Japanese -- the welfare of the nation, its business community and its people are one and the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance Morrow | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...Cold War ended and the Japanese won? Fine by us. The ascendance of Japan as a non-military superpower is not unwelcome. Accompanied by a permanent seat on the UN security council and a new self-written constitution, as Karel van Wolferen proposed in The New York Times this week, Japan and its politicians would have arenas for representation outside economic expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dismembering Pearl Harbor | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...Making America Great Again, contends that the Japanese economy is chronically biased in favor of corporate profits and investment abroad at the expense of the Japanese consumer's living standard. Example: the Japanese have only recently begun to do away with mandatory Saturday office hours. Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen, in his recently published book The Enigma of Japanese Power, argues similarly that Japan is run by a near conspiracy of Big Business and bureaucracy, whose only concern is to expand global market share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Japan Play Fair? Is the Door Open Wide Enough? | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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