In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means literally "outnation". But to many American and Japanese, it is Japan itself that, despite its rising influence in world affairs, is the outsider - "The Outnation". In this rigourous and searching journey through Japan's islands and institutions, Richard Rauch finds that today's Japan is strikingly and often surprisingly familiar. Economically it's similar to America in the days of the great cartels and company towns, with a high-tech update. Politically, it's Mayor Daley's Chicago raised to a national scale and its values, far from being alien to the West are Plato's own.
- ISBN10 0316734470
- ISBN13 9780316734479
- Publish Date 14 October 1993 (first published 1 April 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 March 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English