Japan SurrendersThe author returns to his old Tokyo neighborhood and finds an inward-looking country that has lost its ambition. James Fallows September 2010 Issue In the late 1980s, at the end of a long stint in Asia, my family lived for a year in a far suburb of Tokyo called Utsukushigaoka. Literally that means “beautiful hills,” but I thought of it as “Pleasantville”—a recently built bedroom community that, li
