Marie Anchordoguy is Professor of Japanese Studies at The Heiry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.
Her assiduous collection of data and skillful weaving it into a
story is a formidable feat for a young scholar. She has dug deeper
than other Westerners to understand how the Japanese succeeded in
computers.
*Ezra Vogel, Harvard University*
This book deserves the closest reading not just by Japan
specialists but particularly by students of modern capitalism and
those responsible for Japanese–American relations. Contrary to many
economic theorists who contend that industrial policy never works,
Marie Anchordoguy shows how the Japanese government deliberately
nurtured several Japanese national competitors to IBM computers as
part of a Japanese strategic policy. This is brilliant social
science.
*Chalmers Johnson, University of California, San Diego*
Computers, Inc. represents a triumph of primary research and
analysis. It demonstrates conclusively the coordinated nature of
public–private industrial policy in postwar Japan.
*Thomas McCraw, Harvard Business School*
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