Volume 29, Number 11 · June 24, 1982
Playing Tag with Japan
By Robert B. Reich
MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
by Chalmers Johnson
Stanford University Press, 393 pp., $28.50
The Eastasia Edge
by Roy Hofheinz Jr., by Kent E. Calder
Basic Books, 296 pp., $14.95
As Japan inundates America with video cassette recorders, facsimile copies, microwave ovens, minicomputers, semiconductors, fiber-optic cables, robots, numerically controlled machine tools, automobiles, farm machinery, stereo components, musical instruments, specialty steel, and countless other goods, the American business community is taking oddly contradictory views of the 'Japanese challenge.'
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