Time Quote by Declan Hayes

“The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Unfortunately, our postwar policy has been to ask Japan to change so that our economic policies will dovetail. I think that is completely wrong.…

— Michael Crichton

The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes…

— Dick Morris

Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative…

— David Suzuki

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the…

— Toshihiko Fukui

While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or…

— Shinzo Abe

“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the…

— Theodore C. Bestor

Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the…

— Robert Zoellick

Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would…

— Arjuna Mahendran

Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan…

— David E. Sanger

“Thus, one way to consolidate power is to reinvigorate history issues and generate popular animosity towards Japan.”

— Naval Postgraduate School

“. . . Japan has a fundamental problem with information itself: it’s often lacking, and when it does exist, is fuzzy at its best,…

— Alex Kerr