Kawai, Masahiro; Urata, Shujiro - 2010
In this paper we examine the changing nature of Japan's commercial policy over the last 25 years while reviewing Japan …'s changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan adopted a … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in managed trade and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in Japan …