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Trading places : how America allowed Japan to take the lead / Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.

By: Prestowitz, Clyde V, 1941-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle, 1988Description: xvi, 365 p. ; 19 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 4805305088.Subject(s): Industries -- Japan | Industries -- United States | Japan -- Commerce -- United States | United States -- Commerce -- JapanDDC classification: 338.0952
Contents:
Part I: The sleeping giant -- The end of the American century -- Losing the chips: The semiconductor industry -- Part II: What makes Japan run -- Perception gap: "Unfair" trade and "open" markets -- The mandarins: Japan's powerful ministries -- Mandarin strategies: Japan's industrial policy -- Kaisha: Doing business in Japan -- Part III: What makes America wind down -- Every man for himself: doing business in the United States -- Traders or warriors: the conflict between economic and national security -- U.S. trade negotiations: the players -- U.S. trade negotiations: an insider's report -- Part IV: A look toward the future -- Waking up.

Bibliography: (pages 346-353) and index.

Part I: The sleeping giant -- The end of the American century -- Losing the chips: The semiconductor industry -- Part II: What makes Japan run -- Perception gap: "Unfair" trade and "open" markets -- The mandarins: Japan's powerful ministries -- Mandarin strategies: Japan's industrial policy -- Kaisha: Doing business in Japan -- Part III: What makes America wind down -- Every man for himself: doing business in the United States -- Traders or warriors: the conflict between economic and national security -- U.S. trade negotiations: the players -- U.S. trade negotiations: an insider's report -- Part IV: A look toward the future -- Waking up.

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