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Pacific Rift: Adventures in the Fault Zone Between the US and Japan (The Larger Agenda Series) (1991)

by Michael Lewis

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This light-hearted look at business relations between Japan and the West follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo, and Shuji Tomikawa, a Harvard-educated Japanese working for Mitsui Real Estate in New York City.… (more)
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A finales de los noventa Michael Lewis consiguió convencer a la revista New York Magazine para que le financiara una estancia de cuatro meses en Japón. El autor se fija, en este artículo largo/libro corto, en un norteamericano que triunfó en los negocios en Japón y en un japonés que triunfa en los negocios en EE.UU. Con ellos dos como hilo conductor intenta articular las diferencias en la forma de hacer negocios entre estas dos potencias. Al final queda un ensayo deslavazado, que narra dos biografías pero que no acaba de fundirlas bien en una comparativa clarificadora, como pretende el autor. El estilo de escritura es, como siempre, florido y muy fácil de leer, pero el contenido me ha dejado un poco igual. ( )
  Remocpi | Apr 22, 2020 |
It's funny: 15 years ago, we were all worried about Japan. After the bust in the Japanese economy, we're all worried about China now. Lewis's book is thus an odd historical document, which also illuminates in part how we might view China. He focusses on the structural impediments that kept the Japanese economy closed to Americans, and also caused Japanese companies to misunderstand American real estate. He argues more from anecdote than from any sweeping study, but he writes very entertainingly and observes keenly. ( )
  teaperson | Dec 2, 2008 |
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Twenty years ago it would have been strange for a young American without a special interest in Japan to do business with a Japanese.
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This light-hearted look at business relations between Japan and the West follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo, and Shuji Tomikawa, a Harvard-educated Japanese working for Mitsui Real Estate in New York City.

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