Rising Sun
Rising Sun is a 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. It was his eighth under his own name and eighteenth overall, and is about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. An image of fashion model Gia Carangi is incorporated in the cover art for the original edition.
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- The original Rising Sun book by Michael Crichton is a good read if you didn't know about it. Haven't seen the movie.
- There is a fun Michael Crichton book (and a subsequent movie) that captures the "fretting" quite well IMHO. It's called Rising Sun.
- If you want a fascinating readup on the impact of Japanese investment in Australia, the effects and outcomes, read up on the Multi-Function polis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Polis
In short, it was a plan to build a high-tech city in order to better integrate Australian-Japan relations. In the end, a complete farce, but at the time regular front-page news. It did expose an ugly side to foreign investment in Australia, but things are very much different now - probably as a direct result of nothing very much at all occuring from all the Japanese investment. Mostly the Japanese did their dough, went bankrupt and left behind some big shopping centres, resorts and golf courses which Australians of all colours continue to use and enjoy to this day.
A good companion would be the re-reading of the Micheal Crichton novel "Rising Sun" - written at the peak of the 'Japan to take over the world' thought bubble, before the Japan bubble popped.
- You raise an interesting point about the artificial generation of evidence used in court. In 1992, Michael Crichton wrote the book Rising Sun, which centers around the editing of security camera video footage to coverup a murder.
- > can't understand how
Check out what year Michael Crichton's Rising Sun was released. Ask ChatGPT for a summary of the predictions. And then checkout what actually happened to Japan.
- The 1992 book "Rising Sun" by Michael Crichton is basically about exactly this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(Crichton_novel)
