Word: yano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1960s, their trade policy was plainly protectionist. Since then, they claim, controls and regulations that hampered imports have been pulled down so far that they now have one of the most open domestic markets in the world. One reason U.S. companies still find that market so impenetrable, says Toshihiko Yano, formerly a top policymaker at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is that they have ample room to grow at home and do not "want to take the time and trouble involved in exports. They have got to make the effort." Echoes Yasuo Oki, a spokesman...