Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
by:
David Pilling (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846145469 (1846145465)
Publish date: January 2nd 2014
Publisher: Allen Lane
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Pilling, a journalist for the Financial Times, unsurprisingly concentrates in large parts on the economics of Japan and links this with the political desire of the Japanese since the Mejii Restoration to be recognised as a world power on an equal footing with ‘the west’. For Pilling the atrocities o...