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The Japan That Can Say No, by Shintaro Ishihara, translated by Frank Baldwin (Simon & Schuster, 158 pp., $18.95)

AT LAST, English-speaking readers can buy an authorized version of the Japanese bestseller, The Japan That Can Say No. It is not identical to the Japanese edition (or the “pirate” translation circulated in the U.S.), but this is not to say that the sharp point of the original has been blunted.

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The Japan That Can Say No, by Shintaro Ishihara, translated by Frank Baldwin (Simon & Schuster, 158 pp., $18.95)

AT LAST, English-speaking readers can buy an authorized version of the Japanese bestseller, The Japan That Can Say No. It is not identical to the Japanese edition (or the “pirate” translation circulated in the U.S.), but this is not to say that the sharp point of the original has been blunted.