Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

[Gen Kanai <gkanai@example.com>]

On May 26, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Shin MICHIMUKO writes:
>
> > > There is always the works of van Wolferen .... ;-)
> >
> > I will try to read his article soon. I heard his name sometimes in  
> > the
> > past, but didn't read it yet. Thanks for the input.
>
> He is a well-known "Japan basher" (most famously, /The Enigma of
> Japanese Power/, which was well-researched) and more recently "America
> basher" (/Sakoku by Other Means/, which is basically just a rant).


van Wolferen cared/cares enough about Japan to research and write and  
live in Japan.  Since Japan's heyday in 80's most people don't even  
care enough about Japan to "bash" Japan- they're too caught up in  
whomever is seen as the next rising power- the BRICKs are popular of  
course.

van Wolferen still comes to Japan and speaks to packed audiences (I  
saw him speak a few months ago here in Tokyo) and the room was filled  
with older Japanese people.

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