A Half Step Behind: Japanese Women TodayNumerous books have been written about the country's workaholic, corporate-minded drones, Japanese men, but few writers have grasped that it is really the women who keep Japan on top. In A Half Step Behind, author and journalist Jane Condon explores this often ignored other half of the Japanese success story--Japanese women. |
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