| Description |
261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Opposing viewpoints series |
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Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-256). |
| Summary |
Presents opposing viewpoints regarding Japan's business practices, society, position as a world power, and relationship with the United States. Includes critical thinking skills activities. |
| Contents |
Japan is a superpower / Daniel Burstein -- Japan is not a superpower / Karen Elliot House -- Japan's ethnocentrism inhibits its global status / Clyde Haberman -- Japan can overcome its ethnocentrism / Edwin O. Reischauer -- Japan must rearm to be a superpower / Richard Nixon -- Japan need not rearm to be a superpower / Paul Kreisberg -- Japan supports free trade / Shoichi Saba -- Japan inhibits free trade / Robert T. Green & Trina L. Larsen -- Japan's government subsidies unfairly aid business / Clyde Prestowitz -- Japan's government subsidies have not aided business / C. Brandon Crocker --Government support has aided Japanese technology / Peter Cannon -- Government support for technology has been limited / Gary R. Saxonhouse -- Japan is a democratic society / Ellen L. Frost -- Japan is a class-based society / Karel G. van Wolferen -- Japanese business is humane / Hiroshi Takeuchi -- Japanese business is inhumane / Doug Henwood -- Japan's education system is successful / Herbert J. Walberg -- Japan's education system is flawed / Amano Ikuo -- Japan should contribute more to its defense / Edward A. Olsen -- Japan contributes enough to its defense / James A. Auer -- Japan should increase its foreign aid / Koichiro Matsuura -- Japan should not increase its foreign aid / Abe Motoo -- Japan should share world economic leadership with the US / Toyoo Gyohten -- Japan is not ready for world economic leadership / R. Taggart Murphy -- US-Japan relations benefit both countries / Mike Mansfield -- US-Japan relations may harm the US / Edward J. Lincoln -- US-Japan cooperation improves Asian security / Jerome K. Holloway -- US-Japan cooperation harms Asian security / Richard J. Barnett & Alan Geyer -- The US should challenge Japan's trade policies / James Fallows -- The US should not challenge Japan's trade policies / Saburo Okita. |
| Subject |
Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
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Industrial policy -- Japan.
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Japan.
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Critical thinking.
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| Added Author |
Dudley, William, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0899084443 library binding |
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0899084192 paperback |
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