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The Japan-American Trade War - Online Term Paper

The Japan-American Trade War


For years after the end of the second world war, the Japanese suffered
from an inferiority complex. This was the result of the American aid to
Japan which helped to rebuild their country. Soon the Japanese started
producing goods, small stuff at first, like junky toys in the earlier years
- but then came better items, much better items. Now it is the Americans
that suffer from the inferiority complex, not familiar with being
economically vulnerable and not entirely in control of their destinies. Who
to blame - the Japanese of course. If Americans can not learn to compete
with the Japanese, then there is going to be some serious trouble because
the economic problem will not just "go" ...

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other countries. The Americans dissolved the powerful family businesses
which opened business to more competition and in the countryside, they took
land from the landlords and gave it to the tenant farmers. By the time
American occupation ended in 1952, Japan had returned to prewar levels of
production. With their recovery now ensured, Japan embarked on a period of
great economic growth which is growing at a faster rate every day.

The Japanese are now at the head of a powerful economy which is the
second largest in the world, exceeded only by the Americans. Many beleive
that the Japanese economy will overtake the U.S. economy by the year 2000.
Polls in the United States have indicated that the Americans rank the
Japanese economic threat higher than the Russian military threat.

Yoshio Sakurachi, the speaker for the Lower House of the Diet (the
Japanese Parliament), called American workers lazy and illiterate. These
remarks came just after George Bush and the leaders of ...

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Added: 9/1/2005 10:02:41 PM
Category: Economics
Type: Free Paper
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