>Confirms my suspicions there's not >much point in reading it. Hasn't
>just about everything published in >English on the Japanese economy
>said exactly that for the last 10 >years? And for the 10 years before
>that the Japanese could do no >wrong and we should be more like >them?
>Doug
But the US sure did them wrong, again and again.
US doctrine toward Japan almost always comes from within the following narrow range:
Japan is a country that is well on its way to becoming almost like the US (under constant US supervision and tutelage)
TO
Japan is a country that is not capitalist in a 'western' sense and is always a potential rogue state which needs constant US supervision and tutelage.
Little wonder then that anti-Americanism is on the rise while a conservative like Koizumi flails about trying to appease his American masters and the 'markets'. There simply is no solution for Japan's problems possible from within American doctrine.
Charles Jannuzi