Japan goes Dutch
Murray Sayle: Japan’s economic troubles, 5 April 2001
“... nicknamed ‘Japan Inc’. This can be a flexible and effective system provided there is a broad consensus about its aims, as in the 1960s, when almost all Japanese saw that only by expanding their export markets could they replace Japan’s lost empire. Negotiated in bars and geisha houses by boozy men who were at school and university together (and ... ”