Japanese Press Reviews

1        1989

From the "Monthly Asahi", one of Japan's best-known journals; awarded "The Confucian Renaissance" the book of the Month Prize for November, 1989:

"Here at last is a book which explains why it is that Confucian societies have certain advantages over the West, whether it be the success they derive from human networking or that which comes from the practical application of advanced technology."

From a review of the book by Professor Takashi Inoguchi, Professor of Politics at Tokyo University, In the Asahi, Japan's leading newspaper, in November, 1989:

"This is a book which goes to the heart of the matter - why the peoples of the English-speaking world, who gave us the great international institutions within which we all operate, find it increasingly difficult to compete against the success of North Asia."

From a review in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan Economic Journal), Japan's leading financial newspaper, in October, 1989:

"An important book which highlights why in the future the process of 'internationalisation' my turn out to be more of process of 'Confucionisation' - an important historical forecast, to say the least!"

From the font page of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on 24th October, 1989:

"This book hits the nail right on the head - why does America devote so much energy to the training of lawyers when we Japanese put it all into the training of engineers!"

From the "Oriental Economist", Japan's leading monthly business magazine, in November, 1989:

"Westerners prefer to see the Global Village, which has emerged at the end of the 20th Century, as something which will continue to adhere to a Euro-centred moral order. The authors of this book show why this will not necessarily be the case."