At the same time it was developing into the world's most competitive industrial power, Japan was solving the internal problems that the United States now faces. Isn't it about time, Ezra Vogel asks in this wide-ranging work, that we learn something from the competitor overtaking us?
"_Japan as Number One: Lessons for America_. The very title will blow the minds of many Americans. But unquestionably Japan today has a more smoothly functioning society and an economy that is running rings around ours. Vogel's fascinating book will help explain this best organized and most dynamic of all major modern nations. it also has some hints that might help us with our problems. If the Japanese could learn from us with such profit in the past, perhaps
there is something that we now need to learn from them."
--Edwin D. Reischauer
"An important and challenging book." -_Choice_
"An objective and immensely rewarding appraisal of what the Japanese are good at and how we might emulate them...._Japan as Number One_ deserves a wide readership."
--Frank B. Gibney, _The New York Times Book Review_
"Vogel writes from a deep and subtle grasp-both cognitive and empathetic-of Japanese society and culture."
--Ronald Dore, _Washington Post Book World_