Economic, Industrial and Managerial Coordination between Japan and the USA [Hardcover]

This volume is the product of a three-year collaborative project between Japanese and American scholars. Topics include foreign trade, foreign direct investment, coordination of monetary and fiscal policy, development assistance, telecommunications, intellectual property rights, and agricultural and corporate culture issues. The comparative analyses benefited from continuous dialogue among scholars from both sides of the Pacific.First Foreword; Y.Yuize - Second Foreword; J.B.Mason - Third Foreword; S.Naya - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1: ECONOMIC ISSUES - Barriers to Trade Talks; L.W.Foster - Japanese Direct Investment in the US; K.Abe - US Deindustrialization and Pacific Imports; D.Cheng, W.Gunther & K.Abe - International Monetary Policy Coordination; D.Hooks - Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination; K.Komatsu - Household Saving Rate; M.Abdel-Ghany, D.L. Sharpe & H.Shima - Development Assistance; S.Abe & B.Koppel - PART 2: INDUSTRIAL AND MANAGERIAL ISSUES - Transfer of Japanese Company Culture; M.Murayama - Japanese Corporate English Training; C.B.Hilton - Telecommunications Trade Friction; M.Jussawalla & B.Ross-Pfeiffer - Economic Incentives and Computer Software; H.See - Property Rights in Computer Software; S.J.La Croix - Steel Restructuring in Japan and the US; T.Bain - Import Liberalization and Domestic Beef; Y.Yuize - Auto Industry Human Resource Strategies; J.Cashman - PART 3: CONCLUSION - An Overview of Coordination Concerns; K.Abe, W.Gunther & H.See - US-Japan Relations in the 1990s; C.E.Morrison - The CHIBAMA Project; M.B.Emplaincourt - Index