It would not be surprising if the 21st Century turned out to be the Japanese Century.
Herman Kahn
ECONOMICALLY, that prophecy might be coming true ahead of time.
The impact of Japan's industrial machine, the fastest growing and now the second largest in the non-Communist world, is felt in every corner of the earth. In Europe, businessmen simultaneously worry about competition from Japanese goods and depend on Japanese-built supertankers to move Mideast oil to them despite the 26-month closing of the Suez Canal. In tiny mountain towns of Western Canada, long-unemployed miners are going...
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