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********[A]n excellent book...**”**** ______****__--__**The Economist**______**__Financial Times__ Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, Pilling's __Bending Adversity__ captures the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Japan. Pilling’s exploration begins with the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. His deep reporting reveals both Japan’s vulnerabilities and its resilience and pushes him to understand the country’s past through cycles of crisis and reconstruction. Japan’s survivalist mentality has carried it through tremendous hardship, but is also the source of great destruction: It was the nineteenth-century struggle to ward off colonial intent that resulted in Japan’s own imperial endeavor, culminating in the devastation of World War II. Even the postwar economic miraclethe manufacturing and commerce explosion that brought unprecedented economic
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Pilling, David
- Publisher
- Penguin Press HC, The
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781846145469
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (372 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13