New York Times Bestselling Author Clyde Prestowitz is a long time student of Japan who served as a lead negotiator with Tokyo in his position as Counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. His first book, Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead (Basic Books, 1989), revolutionized thinking about Japan's economic miracle and its relationship with the United States. Prestowitz is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington. He served as Vice Chairman of President Clinton's Commission on Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region, as an advisor to the Export/Import Bank, as a member of Intel's Policy Advisory Committee, and as an advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Indonesia. Prestowitz has also been a blogger for Foreign Policy Magazine and is a prolific contributor to publications such as the Financial Times, New York Times, and L.A.Times. In addition to Trading Places, his books include: Rogue Nation, Basic Books 2003, Three Billion New Capitalists, Basic Books 2005, and The Betrayal of American Prosperity, Simon&Schuster, 2010. He resides in Washington D.C. and Maui.
"Clyde Prestowitz knows Japan well enough to speak about it with
authority, likes Japan's people enough to care about their
country's future, and is inventive and original-minded enough to
have come up with a new way to think about an entire nation's
possibilities. This book has the potential to recast discussion of
Japan's way ahead. I hope it is widely read in Japan and around the
world." --James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly
"In Clyde Prestowitz's imagining Japan really is back. Its
universities and technology are world class, its women fully
emancipated, its culture open, its political power devolved, its
energy-dependence a thing of the past and its citizenry bilingual
in Japanese and English. Fantasy? Absolutely. But Prestowitz draws
on decades of policy-making experience to argue that his vision of
Japan's future is not only desirable but feasible." --David
Pilling, Asia Editor, The Financial Times
"Ever since Japan successfully challenged American industrial
dominance in the 1980s, Clyde Prestowitz has been a leading voice
in urging us to think differently about this remarkable and still
misunderstood nation. His newest book builds on his rich career in
trade and economic policy to probe more deeply into both Japan's
persisting problems, and its still enormous potential to remain a
creative force in the global economy." --Martin Fackler, The New
York Times Bureau Chief, Tokyo
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