Harrigan, James; Vanjani, Rohit - 2021
Does Japanese trade in manufactured goods differ from the rest-of-the world average and from the U.S.? We use a simple … that Japan imports less than other countries, but also exports less than other countries. Relative to the U.S., Japanese … export performance is half as strong today as it was in the mid-1980s. Bilaterally, Japan's normalized imports from the U …