Reading a 'new' book

I have been going through an old book I picked up at a thrift store, Thomas M. Huber, The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan.

Great book, so far..............................................

I recommend it to anyone trying to figure out how the Japanese pulled through so fast into the 20th Century.

One of the key points has to do with the notion of a state bureaucratic meritocracy, somewhat in the Napoleonic idiom, "careers open to talent".........

This is also a way to give those, wondering about what the last post meant,

an opportunity to smell the coffee..... so to speak.