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.

Part 1 Economic issues: barriers to trade talks, Lawrence W. Foster; Japanese direct investment in the US, Kiyoshi Abe; US deindustrialization and Pacific imports, David Cheng et al; international monetary policy coordination, Don Hooks; monetary and fiscal policy coordination, Kenji Komatsu; household saving rate, Mohamed Abdel-Ghany et al; development assistance, Shigeyuki Abe and Bruce Koppel. Part 2 Industrial and managerial issues: transfer of Japanese company culture, Motofusa Murayama; Japanese corporate English training, Chadwick B. Hilton; telecommunications trade friction, Meheroo Jussawalla and Barbara Ross-Pfeiffer; economic incentives and computer software, Harold See; property rights in computer software, Sumner J. La Croix; steel restructuring in Japan and the US, Trevor Bain; import liberalization and domestic beef, Yasuhiko Yuize; auto industry human resource strategies, James Cashman. Part 3 Conclusion: an overview of coordination concerns, Kiyoshi Abe et al. Appendix A: US-Japan relations in the 1990s, Charles E. Morrison. Appendix: The chibama project, Marilyn B. Emplaincourt.