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Book Review. United States Japan Foreign Trade, Jo Bell Whitlatch
Book Review. United States Japan Foreign Trade, Jo Bell Whitlatch
Jo Bell Whitlatch
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Do Not Dump On The Unoites, Spencer J. Pack
Do Not Dump On The Unoites, Spencer J. Pack
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Book Review. United States Japan Foreign Trade, Jo Bell Whitlatch
Book Review. United States Japan Foreign Trade, Jo Bell Whitlatch
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Explaining Policy Failure: Japan And The International Economy, 1969-1971, Robert C. Angel
Explaining Policy Failure: Japan And The International Economy, 1969-1971, Robert C. Angel
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This paper examines the determinants of Japan's most serious postwar blunder: failure to define and implement effective and timely countermeasures to deal with its change from deficit to surplus international monetary status during the 1969-1971 period. It concludes that intense bureaucratic compartmentalization and a lack of supra-ministerial leadership of national policy were key determinants of this failure, leaving Japan's political system dependent upon irresistible external pressure (gai-atsu), in this case from the United States, to define and force implementation of necessary policy changes. This critical but largely ignored episode illustrates a negative aspect of the traditional insulation of Japan's national …