Ezra F. Vogel: Japan as Number One. Lessons for America

At the same time it was developing into the world's most competitive industrial power, Japan was solving 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?
Based on the most up-to-date sources, as well as extensive research and direct observation, Japan as Number One analyzes the island nation's development into the world's most effective industrial power, in terms of not only economic productivity but also its ability to govern efficiently, to educate its citizens, to control crime, to alleviate energy shortages, and to lessen pollution. Ezra Vogel employs criteria that America has traditionally used to measure success in his thoughtful demonstration of how and why Japanese institutions have coped far more effectively than their American counterparts.