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Review title: Closer to the truth
Product review: When I was young I had a passing interest in Japan - they had after all performed an array of miracles in their brief post-feudal history. I learned more of the same at University. And eventually I found myself living in Japan with a Japanese family. And the firm belief that everything I'd ever learned at home or in University was a complete lie.I've read a lot on the subject - and spoken to many people from Japan and overseas about the "truth" of Japan's history and future. Save yourself a lot of the hard work that I went through and just read Smith's well researched work. It tells all that the US did to bolster their own short term position in Asia - at the expense of the common person in Japan and the long term future of the country. The massive (insurmountable?) problems which Japan now faces are very well explained in this book.I only wish more Japanese people could read it. Then perhaps we'd see some meaningful change in this stagnant cesspool of a democracy.
