Japan's New Global Role / Edition 1

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'Japan's New Global Role is not only good reading, but international economics made interesting. Lincoln gives a very clear and perceptive analysis of the major changes that have occurred in Japan in the past decade.'--Tokyo Business Today
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Analyzes the major economic changes that occurred in Japan over the course of the 1980s, including macroeconomic shifts, financial deregulation, yen appreciation, rising labor costs brought by long- term demographic changes, and technological success. Discusses how these changes combined to thrust the Japanese into the world in new ways, and what adjustments and challenges Japan faces. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780815752578
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1993
  • Series: Integrating National Economies Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 320
  • Lexile: 1680L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.97 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

1 A Historic Transformation 1
A Reluctant Arrival 2
The Domestic Policy Environment 4
A Leadership Role? 6
A Higher Profile 8
Military Involvement? 10
The American Policy Agenda 11
Security without Military Force 13
2 The Domestic Roots of Change 16
Current Account Surpluses 17
Financial Deregulation 27
An Appreciation 29
Demographic Change 34
Technology 44
Overall Economic Confidence 51
Conclusion 54
3 The Economic Dimensions of International Outreach 56
Investment 57
Merchandise Trade 84
Technology Flow 93
Foreign Workers 96
Other Human Interaction 98
Conclusion 106
4 Policy Dimensions of Outreach 109
Foreign Aid 111
Participation in Multilateral Organizations 133
The International Extension of Administrative Guidance 145
International Environmental Policy 148
Conclusion 158
5 A Focus on the Asia-Pacific Region 160
The Past 161
The New Japanese interest in Asia 165
Trade Ties 172
Investment 175
Foreign Aid 181
The Yen and Financial Regionalism 183
A Special Relationship with China 186
Other Socialist Countries 191
Conclusion 199
6 The Limits of Economic Power 201
Temporary Problems? 202
Structural Problems 207
An Economic Definition of Participation 212
The 1990-91 Gulf Crisis 219
Conclusion 238
7 Responses to a Changing Japan 241
American Goals 242
Japan's National Economic Interest 244
Military Security 253
A Nonmilitary Alternative 258
Conclusion 266
Notes 268
Index 313
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