Book Review
Author: David Pilling
Publisher:
Allen Lane, Penguin Books, UK.2014
ISBN:
978-1-846-14546-9
Pages: 359
Important insights to modern Japan
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Copyright. 2015. All
rights reserved.
Bending
Adversity shares with the reader, author David Pilling’s detailed knowledge,
insights and abilities to find information about what Japan is, how it
operates, it’s weaknesses, its strengths and it resilience in the face of many
enormous setbacks some of which are manmade. As a country and a culture Japan
is still relatively undocumented. Newspapers, magazines and websites still tend
to focus on the bizarre aspects of Japan not the everyday and these days we
seem to get less news than before from mainstream media.
If
you want to learn more about modern Japan then this book will get you up to
speed with interviews, statistics, personal insights and a balanced view of
what has occurred, possible reasons why and what Japan may do in the future.
The
book is structured into six parts broken down into sixteen chapters with a
foreword, afterword and bibliography.
As
Japan continues to generate interest in the West this book provides an up to
date guide which sheds insights into their ability to bend and survive
adversity. Japan is the third largest economy with 8% of global output and is a
culture that is competitive, adaptive and innovative when under pressure.
Japan
has survived the last two decades in a deflationary low growth environment and
may have lessons for Western countries now facing the same environment.
Book Review
Bending
Adversity Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
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