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65:, Dower continued, although criticized by specialists, "essentially overturned the tables of popular discourse by suggesting what had previously been heresy: that 'the West' might learn from 'the East' -- and not merely about values, but about practical ways of organizing a modern society". Another overview of the field commented that "Vogel's once popular book was the most influential of the huge number of books that sought to draw lessons for the West from Japan's economic achievements. Much of the information that forms the basis of his enthusiastic approach is now outdated, but his discussion is not as one-sided as later critics have suggested, and the book remains readable." 57:'s overview of American post-war scholarship on Japan saw Vogel's work as part of a larger move beyond either seeing Japan as a modernizing nation that would come to more and more resemble the American industrial model or seeing the country from a new point of view skeptical of "Western hegemonism and cultural imperialism" that rejected 45:
Part One, "The Japanese Challenge," outlines the argument developed in the nine chapters of Part Two: "Japanese Successes," that explains "Knowledge: Pursuit and Consensus," "The State: Meritocratic Guidance and Private Initiative," "Politics: Higher Interests and Fair Shares," "The Large Company:
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arguing that Americans should understand the Japanese experience and be willing to learn from it. The Japanese translation sold nearly half a million copies in the year after it was published, making it the all-time best-seller in Japan of non-fiction by a Western author.
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Vogel introduces the volume saying, "convinced that Japan had lessons for other countries, I was no longer content to look at Japan only as a fascinating intellectual mystery, I wanted to understand the success of the Japanese in dealing with practical questions.
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Identification and Performance," "Basic Education: Quality and Equality," "Welfare: Security without Entitlement," and "Crime Control: Enforcement and Public Support."
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Ezra F. Vogel
Harvard University Press
John W. Dower
modernization theory
ISBN
9971988607
ISBN
9679787281
doi
10.2307/2054312
JSTOR
2054312
Bronfenbrenner, Martin
doi
10.1080/05775132.1979.11470556
Dower, John
doi
10.2307/1955768
JSTOR
1955768
The Japan Handbook
ISBN
9781579580551
doi
10.2307/132336
JSTOR
132336
Professor Ezra Vogel
"What Can Japan Teach Us?"
Vogel (1979)

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