Mass Market Paperback, 416 pages
English language
Published Jan. 29, 2008 by Ballantine Books.
During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners. ([source][1])
Also contained in:
[1]: www.michaelcrichton.com/rising-sun/ [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL14950533W/Disclosure_Rising_Sun
During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners. ([source][1])
Also contained in:
[1]: www.michaelcrichton.com/rising-sun/ [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL14950533W/Disclosure_Rising_Sun
This made me wonder if Japanese people really do ignore outsiders. Other than that, it's a classic read.
This made me wonder if Japanese people really do ignore outsiders. Other than that, it's a classic read.
A slow story, hopelessly dated and full of racist propaganda and dire ridiculous warnings. As a person raised during the era when "we had all best learn Japanese" (according to some), I can at least remember this time.
If you're too young to remember the cola wars, this book is best skipped. A sort of nationalist alarmist fabric with a rather dull and lackluster plot laboriously tacked onto it, it has none of the things I like about Crichton.
A slow story, hopelessly dated and full of racist propaganda and dire ridiculous warnings. As a person raised during the era when "we had all best learn Japanese" (according to some), I can at least remember this time.
If you're too young to remember the cola wars, this book is best skipped. A sort of nationalist alarmist fabric with a rather dull and lackluster plot laboriously tacked onto it, it has none of the things I like about Crichton.
In which American author gets all panicky and hot under the collar about the Japanese 'taking over' America. It makes a change from American films, books etc. maligning the British. I do think there is also a strange need to assign league tables, as it were. Something cannot just be what it is. Everything has to be 'the best' or 'the worst'. When the England football side reaches fourth place in the World Cup, the press, instead of congratulating them for getting that far, and playing good footie right up until the end, hounds them for 'failure'. It's aut caesar, aut nihil taken to a diseased extreme. This attitude needs to be given a good shaking and told there is a large number of positions, not just first and last. And besides, the Crichton is xenophobic and not a little sexist too.
In which American author gets all panicky and hot under the collar about the Japanese 'taking over' America. It makes a change from American films, books etc. maligning the British. I do think there is also a strange need to assign league tables, as it were. Something cannot just be what it is. Everything has to be 'the best' or 'the worst'. When the England football side reaches fourth place in the World Cup, the press, instead of congratulating them for getting that far, and playing good footie right up until the end, hounds them for 'failure'. It's aut caesar, aut nihil taken to a diseased extreme. This attitude needs to be given a good shaking and told there is a large number of positions, not just first and last. And besides, the Crichton is xenophobic and not a little sexist too.
