{"product_id":"9780996725422","title":"Stealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World's First Infomerc Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapan's economy is the world's third-largest and second-most-sophisticated, accounting for nearly 10% of global economic activity. It has the lowest unemployment rate among leading industrial nations and, at the same time, a large and growing manufacturing presence around the world. Yet it has frequently been portrayed as an economic disaster - an Asian Greece or Argentina - on the verge of collapse and threatening to take down the world economy with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis view of Japan, long promulgated by Western media, is utterly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy using Japan's own plans and metrics, and finding the deeper story behind the country's powerful \"InfoMerc\" business model, \u003ci\u003eStealth Japan\u003c\/i\u003e reveals an economic success story different from, and often more successful than, that of Western countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike China, Japan has a modern, well-established legal system that increasingly protects contracts and intellectual property. The forced technology transfers of the last century have been replaced with an offshore-export-driven Japan that is nearly invisible to the rest of the world - a fact not lost on the country's leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, as the media has focused on internal GDP and demographic figures, Japan's business and political leaders have continued to favor the export-driven economics central to their post-WWII planning. In almost every respect, these plans have now succeeded: today's Japan is both onshore and offshore, its workers both Japanese and foreign, its production worldwide, and its income both domestic and in countries beyond GDP calculations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow large is Stealth Japan's economy today? Perhaps no one knows, but readers of \u003ci\u003eStealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World's First InfoMerc Economy\u003c\/i\u003e will quickly discover the unexpected scale and details behind this dramatic success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strategic News Service","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50076057993456,"sku":"9780996725422","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996725422_p0.jpg?v=1784741171","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996725422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}