Dollars and Dragons
I have just published the article below in the American Conservative. TOKYO—In the mid 1990s, I published a book entitled Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. By the Year 2000....
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Professor Edward J. Lincoln
The letter below, to the Clinton administration’s chief Japan economist, is self-explanatory. Dear Ed: Having heard nothing from you over the summer despite several private attempts to make contact, I...
View ArticleThe Fingleton Invitation: Progress Report
People have asked me what happened to the Fingleton Invitation. The answer is nothing. Some months ago I invited Ed Lincoln, a former Tokyo-based economic adviser to the U.S. government, to join me for...
View ArticleJapan’s “Lost Decades”: The Sophistry Continues
My article in today’s New York Times Sunday Review has been generating heat as well as light. An article I have written on Japan for the January 8 New York Times Sunday Review went live at the...
View ArticleComing Soon: A Reply to Paul Krugman
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View ArticleA Reply to Paul Krugman
It is past time Paul Krugman visited “basket case” Japan. I have been under the weather these last few days, hence my delay in replying to Paul Krugman’s critique of my recent article on Japan’s lost...
View ArticleJapan’s Trade Figures: Some Perspective
As usual the American press missed the real story. The American press has made much of news that Japan last year recorded a deficit of $32 billion on its visible trade. Supposedly this is the beginning...
View ArticleThe Japanese Electronics Industry: A Rebuttal
A message for Richard Katz and other Japan declinists: Look at the big picture. Probably no commentator has been more outspoken in proclaiming the demise of the Japanese economic model than Richard...
View ArticleThe myth of Japan’s “lost decades”: An invitation to Ambassador John Roos
Why do Americans keep misunderstanding Japan? Much of the blame must be placed at the door of the State Department. And that is why last week I extended an unusual offer to the current U.S....
View ArticleNow blogging at Forbes
I am now blogging at Forbes – you can find my most recent articles here. The RSS Feed for my Forbes blog is here.
View ArticleBoeing Goes To Pieces
This article was first published in the January-February 2014 issue of The American Conservative. At a welcoming banquet in Japan in the 1980s, Ford Motor chairman Philip Caldwell received a memorably...
View ArticleSome of My Recent Commentaries
As some readers have noticed, I have not posted at Forbes.com lately. I hope to be back soon and, in the meantime, I thought it might be useful to list here some of my more important Forbes...
View ArticleWas the Hiroshima bomb justified?
By Eamonn Fingleton It is a question that comes up every year: was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima justified? This year — the 75th anniversary of the attack — the question seems more pertinent than...
View ArticleOn VJ Day, a hard look at an atom bomb apologist
By Eamonn Fingleton If you Google “Laurens van der Post” and “Hiroshima”, you’ll turn up hundreds of thousands of results. This confirms something that some observers have known for years: that though...
View ArticleThe long arm of Japanese industrial policy: Northern Ireland’s experience
In Dublin, Ireland, where I have lived in recent years, many observers view East Asian economics as a remote issue of little interest in Western Europe. As I discovered the other day, it is an attitude...
View ArticleThe rise of East Asia and an epochal threat to American freedoms
By Eamonn Fingleton (This article appears in the January-February 2022 issue of The American Conservative. To read it in pdf form, please click here.) In April 1998 Sony Corporation chairman Norio...
View ArticleThe Myth of Post-industrialism
By Eamonn Fingleton America’s shuttered factories and the false hope of post-industrialism. (This article first appeared in the November-December 2022 issue of The American Conservative.) In the wake...
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