Mr. David Pilling, Asia Editor for the Financial Times and former Tokyo bureau chief published a new book Bending Adversity : Japan and the Art of Survival. Penguin Press published just last month as his first book. The book is already described and reviewed as a major book on Japan after many years and the first groundbreaking rendition to come out of Japans Lost Decades. I have not read yet but looking forward to listen to his own introduction of the work at a book break on April 8th at the Foreign Correspondents Club. Mr Pilling wrote a headline when Japanese Postal service was being privatized citing my comment that Kobo Inamura, a former senior executive at Japan Post, said: “The extreme market fundamentalists have received a big blow. There was even the odour of rising dictatorship by the prime minister,threatening free decision-making in the lower house.”. I remember we traveled to a village at the foot of snowy mountain Gassan in Yamagata Prefecture for him to write a piece of story on the postal services where even mobile phone coverage does not exist but the daily public service was well maintained as a mission for the welfare of the people up in the remotest northeast Japan.. I am looking forward to seeing the author after a decade and reading the book of challenging argument about the true and awakened Japan and its relations to the rest of the world . . He spent 12 years in Asia out of 20 years career at the Financial Times.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:47:36 +0000
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