Overview:
Since Edwin Reischauer first summed up the evolution of modern Japan in 1946, successive revisions have provided a record not only of Japan's resurgence but also of his changing views of the country he has known as missionary's child, scholar and teacher, Occupation official and American ambassador. His present concerns, then, give interest to what might otherwise slip on to library shelves and into student hands as a textbook, a smooth, comprehensive (part geography, part history, part economic-social-political survey), highly sympathetic introduction to the land-and-people today. He finds Japan strong and stable, its imported, shallow-rooted democracy sufficiently secure to weather the imminent loss of a 25-year Liberal Democratic (conservative) majority.....

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