The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese 'economic miracle' failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded, concrete shambles - a wilderness of bad planning, corruption and crowding. Now that the miracle is at an end and Japan seems set to remain in the economic doldrums it must become apparent to...(展开全部)

“犬马难描，鬼魅易画。”在作者看来，存在着两个日本：一个日本经济发达、民生富裕，为人们所熟知；另一个日本却有着僵化腐败的官僚体制，岌岌可危的命令型金融系统，以及被泛滥的基本建设破坏殆尽的自然环境。更可怕的是，后者才是真实的日本。作者旅居日本多年，对日本爱之也深，责之也切。如此锋芒锐利的书，自2001年以来已在日本重版八次并受到欢迎，这本身就从一个侧面说明了日本所面临的困境之深，对改革要求之迫切。 几乎在所有方面，中国都存在与日本类似的问题。惟一值得庆幸的，如本书中文版序言所说，是中国可能具有更强的变革能力。惟有推进改革，中国才能避免重蹈日本的覆辙。

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year...(展开全部)

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year...(展开全部)

Aaron Herald Skabelund is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University.

New York Times Bestseller: A ';virtually faultless' account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (The New York Times Book Review). By midsummer 1945, J

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like t...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like t...(展开全部)