By Eleanor M. Hadley
ISBN-10: 0585496544
ISBN-13: 9780585496542
ISBN-10: 0824825896
ISBN-13: 9780824825898
Eleanor Hadley was once a lady prior to her time. whereas engaged on a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, she was once recruited by way of the U.S. govt for her wisdom of jap zaibatsu (business combines) and in this case grew to become one among MacArthur's key advisors throughout the profession. After finishing her doctorate, she ready for a occupation in Washington till she discovered she used to be being blacklisted. Seventeen years handed sooner than Hadley's identify was once cleared; meanwhile she labored in social carrier companies and taught economics at Smith university. She back to govt provider in 1967 and commenced a exceptional occupation as a senior coverage analyst with the U.S. Tariff fee and the final Accounting workplace. well known (and feared) by means of eastern businessmen and govt leaders as "the trust-busting beauty," Hadley released Antitrust in Japan, a seminal paintings at the effect of postwar deconcentration measures, in 1970. She obtained the Order of the! Sacred Treasure from the japanese executive in 1986. Hadley's own tale offers a colourful backdrop to her great discussions of early postwar regulations, that have been created to supply Japan with a extra effective and aggressive economic system. As a person heavily fascinated by formulating U.S. financial coverage towards Japan for almost part a century, Eleanor Hadley brings a distinct perspective--as good as a down-to-earth feel of humor--to the ongoing problem of speaking around the Pacific.
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One Friday afternoon I was walking to the train station with an English faculty member who was blond and blue-eyed. As usual on spotting foreigners, the children had cried “Gaijin, gaijin” (meaning “outsiders” or “foreigners”) to friends near and far. My colleague’s Japanese was stronger than mine; she told me that the question the children were discussing was whether blue eyes worked the same way as brown. Although the political climate was uncongenial, there were always the endearing personal kindnesses of those whom I knew from the student conferences during my college years, or had come to know since arriving.
But for militarists, cherry blossoms had a different symbolism: cherry blossoms wither not upon the bough, but drop in their prime. Many, many prewar militaristic societies in Japan had “cherry blossom” as part of their names. 26 Memoir of a Trustbuster Japan was already a militaristic society in the 1930s and at the beginning of the 1940s. In the government, the men responsible for military policy had to be on active military service; and only the military had direct access to the emperor. Soldiers were a frequent sight—notable for their rumpled uniforms and their inability to march—as were groups of housewives with diagonal bands across their white aprons cheering soldiers on to battle.
That fall I attended my first “House” dance at Eliot House on the river as the guest of John Lintner, an economist who was to become a junior fellow (a much sought-after distinction) at Harvard with a specialization in public finance. I had two astonishing experiences. One was learning that one had to think of the outside temperature before adding a corsage to one’s outfit; if one were nonchalant in the late fall, winter, or early spring, the cold might do it in. Second, coming from the West Coast, I was flabbergasted to see the whole inner wall of the dining room (converted to a ballroom) covered to a height of six to eight feet with cases of sherry, bourbon, scotch, and gin.
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