Japan after number one
Ezra Vogel, the Harvard sociologist, is legendary in Japan. His 1979 book Japan as No. 1 set sales records in Japan when it was published; no other foreigner’s non-fiction book has ever sold as well in Japan
I interviewed him by telephone; the septuagenarian was in China doing research. Japanese seem to feel their old advocate Vogel is more interested in China than Japan these days, a blow to Japanese pride.