Clyde V. Prestowitz, Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead ( New York: Basic Books, 1988), p. 214.
2.
Two recent and influential examples of this genre are: David P. Catleo, Beyond American Hegemony (New York: Basic Books , 1987); Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (New York: Random House, 1987).
3.
Samuel P. Huntington : 'The U.S. - Decline or Renewal?', Foreign Affairs. Vol. 67, No.2 (Winter 1988/89), pp. 76-96.
4.
Theodore H. White: 'The Danger from Japan', New York Times Sunday Magazine, 28 July 1985; Daniel Burstein, YEN!: Japan's New Financial Empire and its Threat to America, ( New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988); Clyde M. Prestowitz, op. cit; Larry Martz et al., 'Hour of Power?', Newsweek, 27 February 1989, pp. 26-31.
5.
Business Week, August 7, 1989; The Economist, March 19, 1988. To put this in perspective, it should be noted that another poll (Newsweek, April 3, 1989) found that 77 per cent of the Americans responding believe there is a heaven, and 76 per cent that they have a good or excellent chance of getting there.
6.
Martin & Susan Tolchin: Buying Into America, ( New York : Times Books, 1988) ; Barrie G. James, Trojan Horse: The Ultimate Japanese Challenge to Western Industry (London: Mercury Books, 1989).
7.
DeAnne Julius and Stephen E. Thomsen , Inward Investment and Foreign-Owned Firms in the G-5, RHA Discussion Paper No. 12 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1989 ), pp. 3-9.
8.
International Herald Tribune, 21 February 1989, p.6; JEI Report, No. 2B, January 13, 1989, p. 10.
9.
House Committee on Government Operations, The Adequacy of the Federal Response to Foreign Investment in the United States, 96th. Congress, 2nd. session: House Report 96-1216, (Washington, D.C.: Govt. Printing Office, August 1980), pp. 66-67; Japan Economic Institute Report, No. 30, August 4 1989, pp. 6-8.
10.
Tolchin & Tolchin, op. cit, pp. 264-5.
11.
The Economist, May 2,1987, pp. 67-70.
12.
American Chamber of Commerce in Japan & Council of the European Business Community, Direct Foreign Investment in Japan: The Challenge for Foreign Firms ( Tokyo: ACCJ/EBC, 1987).
13.
Elliot Zupnick: Foreign Investment in the U.S.: Costs and Benefits, Headline Series no. 249 (New York; Foreign Policy Association, 1980), pp. 20-22.
14.
Financial Times, 7 December 1987 (Supplement on Japanese Industry, p. iv); Japan Economic Institute: Japan's Expanding U.S. Manufacturing Presence: 1987 Update (Washington, D.C. :JEI, 1988), p. 18; Business Week, 24 July 1989, p. 54.
15.
Japan Economic Institute: Ibid, pp. 2-3.
16.
W.T. Grimm survey, quoted in Financial Times, 8 August 1987.
17.
Susan MacKnight, Japan's Expanding Manufacturing Presence in the United States: A Profile (Washington, D.C.: Japan Economic Institute , 1981), pp. 2, 6-16.
U.S. General Accounting Office, Foreign Investment: Growing Japanese Presence in the U.S. Auto Industry (GAOINSIAD-88-111), March 1988, pp. 41, 53-56.
22.
LesterC. Thurow , 'Paradise Lost', New York Times , 24 February 1988.
23.
Yearbook of U.S.-Japan Economic Relations in 1983, ( Washington, D.C.: Japan Economic Institute, 1984), p. 63.
24.
Japan Economic Journal, 30 October 1984; Allentown Call-Chronicle, 18 November 1984.
25.
New York Times, 9 November 1986; Wall Street Journal, 17 November 1986; Financial Times, 27 Jan. 1987; JEI Report No. 30A (7 August 1987).
26.
Business Week, 12 June, 1989, pp. 40-41.
27.
Financial Times, 10 May, 1989.
28.
Financial Times, 19 July 1989; Sunday Times (London), 23 July 1989 .
29.
Financial Times, 31 May 1989 and 1 August 1989.
30.
House Committee on Government Operations: op. cit, pp. 19-20; New York Times 20 March 1989); JEI Report No. 12B, 24 March 1989.
31.
Financial Times, 18 May 1989.
32.
Financial Times, 27 July 1989.
33.
Wall Street Journal, 18 March 1985.
34.
US Department of Defense: Department of Defense Directive No. 2040.2 (International Transfers of Technology, Goods, Services, and Munitions, 17 January 1984.
35.
Morning Call (Allentown, PA) 14 October 1985; for an overview of the range of state aids, see The Economist Intelligence Unit: US State Investment Incentives (Special Report No. 187), January 1985.
36.
Chicago Tribune, 13 October 1985.
37.
New York Times, 17 September 1985.
38.
New York Times, 10 September 1986; Wall Street Journal, 24 September 1986.
39.
US General Accounting Office: Foreign Direct Investment in the United States - The Federal Role, (June 1980) p. 33.
40.
National Journal, 16 January 1988, p. 130.
41.
Mamoru Yoshida , Japanese Direct Manufacturing Investment in the United StatesNew York: Praeger , 1987), pp. 66-68.
42.
New York Times, 19 August 1987.
43.
Quoted in Robert J. Samuelson: 'America for Sale?', The New Republic, 12 June 1989,p.33.
44.
New York Times, 23 April 1985.
45.
Louise Kehoe , 'Japanese electronics threatens the American Way', Financial Times, 9 March 1989.
46.
Financial Times, 22 June 1989.
47.
Sanford M. Litvack: 'The Urge to Rewrite the Antitrust Laws ', Across the Board, January 1984, p. 15.
48.
Robert B. Reich:'Members Only', The New Republic, 26 June 1989, p. 14.
49.
The Economist, 12 December 1987, p. 79.; Anthony Harris: 'When Detroit catches a cold', Financial Times, 31 July 1989.