Books by Taichi Sakaiya
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What Is Japan?: Contradictions and Transformations - Hardcover
From Kirkus Reviews
A coherent, perceptive appraisal of Japan, from a former official of its vaunted Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Ranging back and forth through his homeland's history, Sakaiya (The Knowledge-Value Revolution, ) offers an utterly fascinating account of how an internally cohesive island nation without natural resources became a global economic power despite a shattering defeat in WW II. He traces key character traits of the remarkably homogeneous, consensus-oriented population back to the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Meijii Restoration, and other premodern eras, but he contends that the military regime in control before Pearl Harbor was primarily responsible for harnessing the traditions and spirit of Japan to build an industrial juggernaut. The means to this end, the author argues, was administrative guidance provided by a bureaucratic system whose stress on standardization has made the country immensely productive, albeit less than creative. Commercial success has left the diligent, provident Japanese vaguely discontented, concludes Sakaiya, who goes on to detail the many ways in which
Policy Speech: Does It Really Deserve to Be Called ‘Remodeling The Japanese Archipelago’?
Editorial
JST, January 25,
There can be no objection to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s basic idea of restoring vitality to the depopulating regions of Japan, but if his methods are just a rehash of conventional policies, then they are not worth talking about.
The ordinary session of the Diet has convened, and the prime minister has given his policy speech in both the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. Ishiba emphasized his intention to push regional revitalization as a top policy priority, calling it “remodeling the Japanese archipelago in the Reiwa era.”
The prime minister said, “The public and private sectors will work together to create regional hubs, and the attractiveness of not just hardware but also content will create new flows of people.”
As specific measures to achieve this, the prime minister cited such steps as promoting the relocation of companies to regional areas, adding value to the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries, and revitalizing the tourism industry. But these measures are not new.
Since , the government has been working on reg
What is Japan?: Contradictions and Transformations
Taichi Sakaiya. Kodansha America, $25 (pp) ISBN
In an extraordinarily stimulating and provocative book, Sakaiya ( The Knowledge-Value Revolution ), former doyen of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, observes that, to Americans, Japan seems ``a faceless economic power, a black box that belches forth industrial products . . . there may be no other country whose brand names are so widely known and yet whose people and culture are so obscure.'' His explanations are those of a loyalist exalting his culture's virtues even as he takes it to task. Sakaiya shifts between Japan's current work-focused society--which has no room for individuality and a population, probably the world's richest, that does not enjoy its wealth--and its historic roots. His insider's insights into what he calls the government's ``administrative guidance'' give new dimension to the debate over this well-known but poorly understood policy designed to encourage mass production, create a uniformly trained populace to staff its corporations and make Tokyo the ``only brain'' of a centralized nation. Equally strong are his assessments of J
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