An Ocean Apart: Explaining Three Decades of U.S.-Japanese Trade Frictions

by Stephen D. Cohen

Closing a critical gap in the literature examining the strained relationship between the U.S. and Japan, this book synthesizes the economic, political, historical, and cultural factors that have led these two nations, both practitioners of capitalism, along quite different paths in search of different goals. Taking an objective, multidisciplinary approach, the author argues that there is no single explanation for Japan's domestic economic or foreign...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275956865
• ISBN13: 9780275956868
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"