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Japan's Computer Challenge

to leapfrog. How the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) played a dynamic role in the process, how priority areas were identified etc., is a fascinating story documented elsewhere. The book under review studies yet another major national endeavour by the Japanese, the Fifth Generation Computer Project. Without a strong experience base in a number of computer fields, the Japanese are working towards the fifth generation computer, expected to come into use some time in the 1990’s. But the leapfrogging they are attempting now is very different. For one thing it is an indigenous effort. While the earlier advances can be related to sophisticated imported technologies, the present venture cannot. Secondly, the goal is nebulous. Earlier the targets were clearcut, now there is no Western