Word: tokyo
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...trade tensions between Japan and the U.S. from both sides of the Pacific. From 1971 to 1978 he served as Detroit bureau chief, witnessing the wrenching decline of the American automobile industry. Then it was back to Japan, with his wife and two of their five daughters, again as Tokyo bureau chief in 1978. While in Tokyo, Reingold developed a penchant for typing his files standing up. He claims the habit encourages him to write succinctly and, of course, to keep on his toes...
...though the market is opening up. U.S. sales of telecommunications equipment in Japan, for example, reached $263.3 million last year, up from $106 million in 1985. Yet the U.S. is basing its current trade complaints at least partly on the problems Motorola has faced in getting frequency clearance in Tokyo for the cellular telephones it is selling in Japan; Tokyo considers the grievance too small to justify the hubbub surrounding it. Observes Peter Tasker, British author of The Japanese: "Japan is not alone in some of these disputes. Try selling telecommunications to the French...
...Tokyo lacks the leadership to launch the kind of overnight reforms that would convince U.S. politicians that they were being heard. A Japanese Prime Minister does not carry the clout of an American President or a British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look...
...fundamental problem in U.S.-Japanese relations is that the two countries have different concepts of how an economy should work. Americans and Europeans continually tell Tokyo that they want "fair" trade, which at its simplest means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan...
...quandary has ; left the Bush Administration walking a fine line between heated cries to battle by congressional trade hawks and equally urgent calls for restraint by dedicated free traders. Last week President Bush took a congressionally mandated swipe at Japan, but delivered the blow gently -- in the hope that Tokyo would not feel compelled to counterpunch...