Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The puzzle is how two countries so intertwined can be so frequently at odds. Ever since President George Bush showed up in Tokyo last month with a group of vituperative business leaders in tow, the U.S. and Japan have once again been sniping at each other. And once again the...
America is also on Japan's mind and stays there even after a Japanese outgrows blue jeans. American books, both pop and profound, can at times sell more in Japanese translation than back home in English. News is often seen through an American prism. Trends and movements sweep across the...
Last spring a book called The Coming War with Japan became a best seller in Japan and has sold 40,000 copies in the U.S. The authors, Meredith LeBard and Dickinson College political scientist George Friedman, predicted a shooting war within 20 years between the U.S. and Japan. The authors...
The central concern in American objections to Japan is that of fairness. Americans entertain a profound respect for the talents of the Japanese, for their hard work, their intelligence, their high standards of quality. James Kielt is a retired envelope and paper salesman in Freeport, N.Y., who served in the...
The nation is heading into one of the more important presidential terms in its history. The American economy must earn a place in a radically altered world (much changed from the triumphant postwar American years when Japan, Europe and Russia were in cinders and Detroit made the only cars worth...