{"product_id":"stealth-japan-mark-anderson-9780996725422","title":"Stealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World's First Infomerc Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapan's economy is the world's third-largest and second-most-sophisticated, accounting for nearly 10% of global economic activity. It has the lowest unemployment rate among leading industrial nations and, at the same time, a large and growing manufacturing presence around the world. Yet it has frequently been portrayed as an economic disaster - an Asian Greece or Argentina - on the verge of collapse and threatening to take down the world economy with it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis view of Japan, long promulgated by Western media, is utterly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy using Japan's own plans and metrics, and finding the deeper story behind the country's powerful \"InfoMerc\" business model, \u003ci\u003eStealth Japan\u003c\/i\u003e reveals an economic success story different from, and often more successful than, that of Western countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnlike China, Japan has a modern, well-established legal system that increasingly protects contracts and intellectual property. The forced technology transfers of the last century have been replaced with an offshore-export-driven Japan that is nearly invisible to the rest of the world - a fact not lost on the country's leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFor decades, as the media has focused on internal GDP and demographic figures, Japan's business and political leaders have continued to favor the export-driven economics central to their post-WWII planning. In almost every respect, these plans have now succeeded: today's Japan is both onshore and offshore, its workers both Japanese and foreign, its production worldwide, and its income both domestic and in countries beyond GDP calculations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow large is Stealth Japan's economy today? Perhaps no one knows, but readers of \u003ci\u003eStealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World's First InfoMerc Economy\u003c\/i\u003e will quickly discover the unexpected scale and details behind this dramatic success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Anderson,Scott Foster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0996725423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996725422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Strategic News Service\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d","brand":"Mark Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443823980799,"sku":"9780996725422","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a31d047d-fdf9-4749-b2c9-989372f71d6c.jpg?v=1777208099","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stealth-japan-mark-anderson-9780996725422","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}