john w. dower makes staying up all night doing work fun
Not really, but he is my favoritest Japanologist in the whole wide world. Check out his summary of postwar Japanese economic policies:
"In the maw of defeat, confronted by a staggering postwar crisis, it seemed logical to most Japanese to maintain [prewar] arrangements; and with the good grace of their American overlords, that is essentially what they did. Much of what later became identified as the 'Japanese model' and was then shrouded in a vapor of rhetoric about Confucian values was simply a carry-over of arrangements that had been spawned by the recent war; and postwar planners maintained and adapted this inheritance not because they were secret samurai, but because this was a rational way to promote maximum economic growth in an ominous world."
Heh heh, "secret samurai." I wish there was a Paypal system whereby I could buy John W. Dower a beer.
"In the maw of defeat, confronted by a staggering postwar crisis, it seemed logical to most Japanese to maintain [prewar] arrangements; and with the good grace of their American overlords, that is essentially what they did. Much of what later became identified as the 'Japanese model' and was then shrouded in a vapor of rhetoric about Confucian values was simply a carry-over of arrangements that had been spawned by the recent war; and postwar planners maintained and adapted this inheritance not because they were secret samurai, but because this was a rational way to promote maximum economic growth in an ominous world."
Heh heh, "secret samurai." I wish there was a Paypal system whereby I could buy John W. Dower a beer.