"This is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment causes in Japan and … foreign reporting of them." "These accounts of the battle for the national soul in Japan and Germany constitute one of the …

After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the postwar era, Japan plunged … is only now emerging. Japan's malaise, marked by recession or weak economic activity, commodity and asset price deflation … industrial world since the 1930s. In Japan's Great Stagnation, experts on the Japanese economy consider key questions about the …