 | @quot;Rich Nation, Strong Army@quot;: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan Since World War II, Japan has become not only a model producer of high-tech consumer goods, but also-despite minimal spending on defense-a leader in innovative technology with both military and civilian uses. Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the MIT-Japan Program. He is author of The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective , also from Cornell, winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. |
