Template:Did you know nominations/The Coming War With Japan

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 21:36, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

The Coming War With Japan

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• ... that neither of the US-based authors of the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan had ever visited Japan when they wrote it? See answers by LeBard and Friedman in the transcript here
  • ALT1:... that the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan sold more copies in Japan than in the US? "Critics dismissed its conclusion that U.S.-Japanese economic antagonism will eventually lead to a shooting war and the book sold only 40,000 copies in its first nine months. But the Japanese edition sold 60,000 copies in its first three weeks and became the talk of Tokyo.", also "So far, the book has sold about 40,000 copies in the United States, which is pretty good but not terrific for the genre. In May, 1991, "The Coming War" was published in Japan. It was an immediate sensation. The book was reviewed for the most part, favorably by all major publications. It sold 350,000 to 400,000 copies, a superb performance by Japanese standards." and "The U.S. edition was published in March and has sold 35,000 hardcover copies, St. Martin’s Press said in New York. The book’s title ensured immediate success among voracious Japanese readers, who bought all 40,000 copies of the first Japanese-language edition, prompting publisher Tokuma Shoten to run another printing of 120,000 copies."
  • ALT2:... that the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan predicted that a conflict between the US and Japan would unfold within a generation? See here. Nb. a lot of the reviews of this book used the much-juicer claim that it was predicted within 20 years, but I couldn't find this said explicitly within the book though Friedman did say that this is what they were going to predict before the book was published. EDIT: apparently the original dust-jacket of the book included the "two decades" claim? But I haven't been able to find a copy of it to confirm this directly, just it quoted in another source
  • ALT3:... that George Friedman, the author of the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan, said in 1990 that he believed that conflict between the US and Japan was likely within 20 years? See quote here, unfortunately unless something explicitly saying this in the book can be found this is going to be a bit wordy

Created by FOARP (talk). Self-nominated at 11:37, 15 March 2021 (UTC).

• New article created on date above, over 1,500 characters, appropriately sourced and with no disputes or copyvios. Happy with all the ALTs, all properly sourced, have a slight personal preference for ALT0 and ALT1 as they provide a nice juxtaposition. QPQ not applicable as under 5 DYK nominations for this user. Happy to approve these and leave it up to admins on which ALT to choose. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 17:36, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
• P.S.: I would consider adding {{Nihongo}} or {{Nihongo2}} for the Japanese text in the lead per WP:MOS-JA. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 17:37, 23 March 2021 (UTC)