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January 16, 2024

Asia Times Review of The Contest For Japan's Economic Future

From: RICHARD KATZ <rbkatz@rbkatz.com>
Date: 2024/01/12

The Asia Times, an online newspaper, reviewed my new book, The Contest for Japan's Economic Future: Entrepreneurs Vs. Corporate Giants.

The title is: Kicking Japan back into entrepreneurial high gear

The opening is: 

Richard Katz sees light at the end of the tunnel for the perpetually low-growth Japanese economy. In his new book, "The Contest for Japan's Economic Future: Entrepreneurs vs. Corporate Giants", Katz declares that: "For the first time in a generation, Japan has the potential to rewrite its story. On the surface, the economy seems intractably stagnant and politics disappointingly unresponsive. Beneath the surface, reason for hope arises from six megatrends that add up to a tectonic shift in civil society. These include generational shifts in all sorts of attitudes, technological changes that alter the power balance between incumbents and newcomers, shifts in gender relations, the ramifications of the demographic crunch, the stimulative effects of globalization, and the political stresses induced by low economic growth." 

It is available at https://asiatimes.com/2024/01/kicking-japan-back-into-entrepreneurial-high-gear/ You need to keep scrolling down to read the entire review. 

Richard Katz

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