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Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan. By Mayumi Itoh. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 256p. $45.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2002

Kent E. Calder
Kent E. Calder
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Princeton University
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The tide of globalization that has swept the world political economy over the past two decades is clearly a development of epic importance. Given Japan's economic scale—one-seventh of global GNP and more than one-quarter of world savings—its ability and inclination to respond is likewise a subject of broad international concern. Yet, the debate on Japan's evolving political-economic course has so far yielded far more heat than light.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 96 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 265 - 266
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© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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