Review: Coping with U.S.-Japanese Economic Conflicts
| Author | Frank Langdon |
| Published date | 01 September 1984 |
| Date | 01 September 1984 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070208403900315 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
688
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
conclusions,
yet
the
personal
recollections
of
an
American
third
sec-
retary
in
Warsaw
or
a
foreign
office
clerk
in
Budapest
are unlikely
to
trigger
a
revisionist
crisis
of
faith.
Revisionists
will
still
rely
on
broad
ideological
and
economic
reasons
to
explain
why
Americans
were
so
reluctant
to
accept
Soviet
domination
of
Eastern
Europe
and
so
ready
to
conclude
that
the
Russians
were
implacable
antagonists
of
unlimited
ambition.
It
is
important
to
know
what
happened
on
the
Cold
War's
front
lines,
but
most
diplomatic historians
will
remain
more
interested
in
what
was
thought,
said,
and
decided
in
the
generals'
tents.
Wesley
T.
Wooley/University
of
Victoria
COPING
WITH
U.S.-JAPANESE
ECONOMIC
CONFLICTS
Edited
by
I.M.
Destler
and
Hideo
Sato
Toronto:
D.C.
Heath,
1982,
x,
293pp,
$31.25
This
book
should
be
required reading
for
anyone dealing
with
trade
conflicts
between
Canada
and
either
the
United
States
or
Japan.
While
it
does
not
hold
out
hope
for
easily
solving
Canada's
problems
with
either
of
its
two
chief
trading
partners,
it
accurately
illustrates
the
business
groups
and
government
officials
involved
and
the
sort
of
negotiations
that
take
place.
The
American
attempts
to
surmount
the
barriers
to
the
export
of
agricultural products
and
high
technol-
ogy
to
Japan
as
well
as
to
protect
high-cost
industries
at
home
are
also
objectives
of
Ottawa
toward
Japan.
It
is
instructive
to
see
Can-
ada's
more
powerful
trading
partner
and
ally
up
against
the
same
problems
in
Japan
as
well
as
to
be
subject
to
some
of
the
same
sort
of
protectionism
ourselves
as is
Japan.
Five
case
studies
are
taken
up
in
an
authoritative
fashion
by
the
academic
authors.
Hideo
Sato
and
Michael
W.
Hodin
describe
the
1977
struggle
to
keep
out
lower
cost
Japanese
steel.
Gilbert
R.
Win-
ham
and
Ikuo
Kabashima cover
Japanese
auto
exports.
Sato
and
Timothy J.
Curran
detail
the United
States
struggle
to
increase
beef
and
citrus
exports
to
Japan.
Curran
also
writes
of
the
attempt
to
get
Japan
Telephone
and
Telegraph
Corporation
to
open
bids
to
Amer-
ican
high
technology
producers.
I.M.
Destler
and
Hisao
Mitsuyu
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