Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses J

There is great interest in the Pacific Century and what its implications for the future will be. The rapid economic growth of East Asia was already setting the

This book, first published in 1984, examines the spectacular economic growth of the Asia Pacific region in the 1970s and 1980s. How did a group of non-Western n

In the fast changing modern world where does Japan fit in, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocativ

After World War II, Japan reinvented itself as a shipbuilding powerhouse and began its rapid ascent in the global economy. Its expansion strategy integrated raw