Pacific Rift: Adventures in the Fault Zone between the U.S. and Japan

Can we really succeed in opening up Japan to U.S. business? Not likely, says Michael Lewis. After all, if neither Commodore Perry nor General MacArthur could do it, what chance do trade negotiators have? Lewis's satirical journeys through the world financial markets, documented in Liar's Poker and The Money Culture, provide him with a unique window on the increasingly strained relationship between the world's two largest trading nations. In Pacific Rift, Lewis follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants: Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo, and Shuji Tomikawa, a Harvard-educated Japanese man working for Mitsui Real Estate in New York City. From the Ginza hostess bars of Tokyo to the wino gangs of Times Square, Lewis's wit pierces the mountain of rhetoric surrounding U.S.-Japanese relations to reveal a disquieting, tragicomic grassroots collision of two disparate cultures and two conflicting interpretations of capitalism.

Author(s): Michael Lewis  

ISBN 10: 039330986X
ISBN 13: 9780393309867
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Publication: June 1993
Edition: REPRINT