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... . . . but in the past there were only the poor, and the poor today are better off than in most of the Third World. Who is guilty of "oversimplifications, distortions, deliberate omissions, and even outright denials of known facts"? Mr. Chan or myself? JON WORONOFF Tokyo A Response to Jon Woronoff In my JAS review...

...Jon Woronoff Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR 503 evidence against his misrepresentation of my thesis. Having oversimplified my thesis, Ch'eng proceeds to dismiss it as both tautological and overblown. I may claim too much or too little...

...Sheila K. Johnson Politics the Japanese Way . By Jon Woronoff . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1988 . 448 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 407 revealing their foreign experiences. Then there are two groups...

...William H. Newell Japan in the Passing Lane . By Satoshi Kamata . Translated by Tatsuru Akimoto . Introduction by Ronald Dore . New York : Pantheon Books , 1982 . 211 pp. $14.95. Japan's Wasted Workers . By Jon Woronoff . Totowa, N.J. : Allanheld, Osmun Publishers , 1983 . 296...

... particularly wonderful even occurred (or the costs far outweighed the supposed benefits) or the writer thinks the achievements are hardly on the order of miracles and in fact can be replicated with a bit of hard work by most any country. Jon Woronoff belongs to the second camp. He argues that Japan, Taiwan...

...David J. Lu The Japan Syndrome: Symptoms, Ailments, and Remedies . By Jon Woronoff . New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books , 1986 . 230 pp. Charts, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $19.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 169...

... direction in its fourteen pages, this book fails to give a cogent outline for restructuring Japan. Some of the ills Woronoff points out are obviously true. But in his eagerness to prove Japan's paucity amidst plenty, he has attacked some true or imagined villains. For example, his uncharitable...

.... Appendix (photographs), Notes, Bibliography, HongKong: Dilemmas ofGrowth. EditedbyLeung Index. $24.95. Chi-keung, J. W. Cushman, and Wang Gungwu. HongKong: Capitalist Paradise. ByJon Woronoff. Hong Kong and Canberra: Center of Asian Studies, Hong Kong: Heinemann, 1981. 280 pp. Bibli- University of Hong...

... their formal ranking was lower than that of their Dutch equivalents. The ringisho system described so sarcastically by Woronoff is actually of very little importance to the exercise of authority, although the system makes everyone feel that he is involved and knows what is going on. The disjunction between...

... and the Pantheon in Sinhalese Buddhism 273 Southeast Asia RAFFERTY, ELLEN, Languages of the Chinese ofJava An Historical Review REYNOLDS, CRAIG J., and HONG LYSA, Marxism in Thai Historical Studies 247 77 821 822 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Communications to the Editor CHAN, MING K., A Response to Jon Woronoff CHAVES...

..., edited overall by Jon Woronoff. The two editors/compilers of this dictionary are at Ohio University: Kent Mulliner is Assistant to the Director of Libraries and Lian TheMulliner is head of Ohio's extensive Southeast Asia Collection. Both have long personal and professional experience in Southeast Asia...

....: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1991. xxxii, 251 pp. $32.50. This work is the seventh in the Asian Historical Dictionaries Series, edited overall by Jon Woronoff. The two editors/compilers of this dictionary are at Ohio University: Kent Mulliner is Assistant to the Director of Libraries and Lian TheMulliner is head...

...: either the author does not believe anything particularly wonderful even occurred (or the costs far outweighed the supposed benefits) or the writer thinks the achievements are hardly on the order of miracles and in fact can be replicated with a bit of hard work by most any country. Jon Woronoff belongs...

... will come not with a bang (another war) but a whimper. His view ofJapan's weakness, incidentally, precludes his taking an interest in Japan's resurgent nationalism something other scholars find quite worrisome. My own reaction to Woronoffs pronouncements about Japan was to recall an old joke about a man who...

... O'BRIEN University of Wisconsin The Japan Syndrome: Symptoms, Ailments, and Remedies. By J O N W O R O NOFF. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1986. 230 pp. Charts, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $19-95. Jon Woronoff has written another book highly critical of Japan's economic performance. His...

... Way. By J O N W O R O N O F F . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. 448 pp. $45.00. Jon Woronoff is a well-known Jeremiah on the subject of Japan. Not only is he a handwringer; he is also quick to tell us that he stands alone as a seeker of the unvarnished truth. "Unlike the other 'crisis' books, I do...

... installment of the Asian Historical Dictionaries series put together under the auspices of the general editor, John Woronoff. The Historical Dictionary of Myanmar includes a short introduction, notes on romanization, a list of abbreviations, and a chronology of Myanmar history. Alphabetized entries fill...

... (199D:649-50. WORONOFF, Jon. Asia's "Miracle" Economies. Second edition. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992. 304 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). China and Inner Asia BENNET, Milly; A. Tom Grunfield, ed. On Her Own: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1927...

..., trans. The Lotus Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. $14.95. WORONOFF, Jon. The Japanese Economic Crisis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. South Asia BHARGAVA, P. L. Founders of India's Civilization: The Lives of Ten Great Pre-Buddha Men of India. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1994...

..., eds. Japan, the United States, and Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993- $32.50. WORONOFF, Jon. TheJapanese Economic Crisis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. YOSHIMURA, Yoshiko, comp. CensoredJapanese Serials of the pre-1946 Period: A Checklist of the Microfilm...