Wiley today announced Japanization: What the World Can Learn from
Japan's Lost Decades, a new addition to Wiley’s imprint, Bloomberg
Press, featuring a critical look where Japan went wrong, how it sank
under the weight of hubris and political atrophy, and missed opportunity
after opportunity to scrap an insular model based on overinvestment,
export-led growth, and excessive debt.
A recent poll shows that 21% of investors now see Japan as offering the
best opportunities in the year ahead and 54% are more optimistic than
pessimistic about what economists call “Abenomics.”
This book will counter the conventional wisdom that Japan is about to
return to its former glory. It will detail how Japan’s prime minister
Shinzo Abe’s new growth strategy to end the nation’s 20-year malaise and
halt deflation is really the same old mix of fiscal and monetary
excess—that left Japan with the world’s largest public debt, zero
interest rates, and constant deflation.
It explores ten forces that are stunting Japan’s evolution into a more
vibrant, creative and competitive economic species; and present
prescriptions for each one.
Japanization includes case studies of some of the biggest and
most-observed companies, including Olympus, Japan Airlines, Sony, and
Toyota; Nobel Prize winners: Paul Krugman, Aung San Suu Kyi and Muhammad
Yunus; big social thinkers like Malcolm Gladwell, and some of the
best-known investors, including Warren Buffett and Donald Trump; sports
stars: Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Bobby Valentine and others.
Japanization is now available at US$34.95 (Hardcover) and
US$22.99 (E-book) through Wiley’s Online Store (www.Wiley.com)
and all major book stores.
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