Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the Year 2000 was published by Houghton Mifflin in March 1995 and subsequently in five other editions by publishers in the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and France. This is what some prominent experts and critics said about the book�s radically different analysis of the Japanese economy....

• �Blindside is a book of fundamental originality and importance, not simply for making sense of Japan�s economic achievement but also as an intellectual mystery story. Why is it so difficult for the Western world to recognize the existence of a new economic model? What evidence will it take to break through the smug Western assumption that Japan is collapsing of its own weight? A generation from now, readers will recognize Blindside as having offered crucial and prescient guidance on these questions. Those who read it now will be ahead of the game.� -- James Fallows

• �Fingleton is merciless as regards the conventional economic view of Japan, and persuasive as to what is right. Blindside is an important and interesting book, and it will have a large, well-rewarded, and sometimes angry audience.� -- J.K. Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society

• �A brilliant book.� -- Pat Choate

• �Fingleton has written a brilliant book full of fresh insights that explode carefully nurtured myths about Japan, as well as much conventional wisdom.� -- Clyde Prestowitz, author of Trading Places

• �Crisp, well-written, well-executed.� -- �Adam Smith,� New York Times Book Review

• �Blindside seems provocative, if not disturbing, at a time when it is fashionable in the English-language press to reassure oneself on the convergence of all forms of economic development toward the Western model.� -- Philippe Pons, Le Monde, Paris

• �U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, leading the charge against Japan, has been quoting author Eamonn Fingleton.� -- Stuart Varney, CNN

• �This provocative and informed analysis is an antidote to the recent flurry of critiques that see Japan�s current economic trroubles as the same old omens of decline.� -- Publishers Weekly

• �This brilliant book shatters the misperceptions of Japan fostered by the English language press.� -- Leon Hollerman, Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center

• �This gracefully written book is the most theoretically sophisticated treatment yet of how the Japanese economy differs from Anglo-American capitalism.� -- Chalmers Johnson, author of MITI and the Japanese Miracle

• �Provides an important corrective to some of the euphoria about America�s competitiveness comeback in high-tech.� -- Leslie Helm, Los Angeles Times

• �Blindside gives arresting examples of American dependency on the sophisticated products of Japanese manufacturing sector.� -- Tim Armstrong, former Deputy Industry Minister, Canadian government

• �President Bill Clinton has recommended it.� -- European Business News

• �Controversial.� -- Barbara Rudolph, Time

• �Fingleton unveils the strength of the Eastern attitude to business.� -- Ann Hills, Evening Standard, London

• �Blindside explains how different is the economic culture of Japan compared to our own. The inevitable conclusion is that to attempt to impose a universal economic system is no more than blind utopianism.� -- Sir James Goldsmith

• �Fingleton�s book has had a tremendous influence not only on economists but on Japan-based computer and technology journalists.� -- Steve Myers, Computing Japan, Tokyo

• �At elite private seminars and on the Internet, [people] are excitedly picking over Fingleton�s thesis.� Robert Guest, Daily Telegraph, London

• �Widely acclaimed.� -- Sunday Tribune, Dublin

• �One of the ten best business books of the year.� -- Business Week