The Sun Also Sets

Given Japan's economic prowess and, since 1983, its huge exports of capital it has become reasonable to wonder: will Japan buy up the world?

When and how might it turn its economic and financial might into political power?

Might it even take over leadership from a declining America and a Europe preoccupied with itself?Bill Emmott, for three years Tokyo correspondent for "The Economist" and now its Business Affairs editor in London, argues that Japan is not as invincible or indeed as different as it seems.

This book analyzes how wealth, success and the strong Yen are all changing Japan's society, economy and politics in ways that are destroying cherished old Western myths about the country.