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Julian Loose (review date 22 October 1992)

SOURCE: "Number One Passport," in London Review of Books, Vol. 14, No. 20, October 22, 1992, pp. 26-7.

[In the following excerpt, Loose faults Crichton's negative and unbalanced view of Japanese economic power and influence in Rising Sun.]

For all its awesome success in the world market, Japan remains somehow stubbornly Other. Yet few can afford to ignore its looming presence. Certainly not in America, where the annual trade imbalance stands at 50 billion dollars in Japan's favour, where nearly a third of the budget deficit is shouldered by Japanese investors, and where many now recognise Japan as employer, banker and landlord. When Sony bought up Columbia Pictures in 1989, a Newsweek cartoon replaced the Statue of Liberty in the Columbia logo with a geisha; other icons now under Japanese management include the Rockefeller Center, Universal Studios and Michael Jackson. Such high-profile...

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