ese blacksmith worked the bellows with his feet. "Perhaps this is an important difference be- tween a European and an Asiatic," he reflected in The Mikado's Empire (Harper, 1876; Scholarly Resources, 1973). "One sits down to work, the other stands up to it." From this in- auspicious debut, the Western study of Japan's economy has progressed.
Asia's New Giant (Brookings, 1976, cloth & paper), edited econ- omists Hugh Patrick and Henry Ro- sovsky, is perhaps the best general...