Fast-forward to the late 1960s. Japan is in the middle of an economic miracle like few others, making it second only to the United States in the size of its economy. Indeed, by the 1980s, Americans will be justifiably worried that they are doomed to be surpassed by Japan’s industrial and technological might.
How did Japan’s fortunes shift so dramatically? And why did the country’s economy then crash catastrophically in the 1990s, indefinitely stalling its seemingly unstoppable climb to world dominance?
In 12 wide-ranging, half-hour lectures, The Rise of Modern Japan probes the culture, economy, and politics of post-World War II Japan, presented by Professor Mark J. Ravina, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Chair in Japanese Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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