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| | Reviews Is Japan Still Number One? |
 | | "To expect Americans," wrote Vogel, "who are accustomed to thinking of their nation as number one, to acknowledge that in many areas its supremacy has been lost to an Asian nation and to learn from that nation is to ask a good deal." |
 | | Emphasis on the traits that were supposedly unique to "Japan" in Vogel's eyes—basic education, low crime levels, an all-wise-all-powerful bureaucracy, even a well functioning democracy—were also areas that made Japan work. |
 | | By the 21st century, Vogel and company told us, those Americans still lucky enough to have jobs would have been relegated to flipping hamburgers and delivering pizzas, while Europe would be nothing more than a play-pen for Japanese jet setters. |
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