Anyway, all this was part of that 1980s US 'angst' about Japan as No. 1, the US falling behind, trooping off to Germany and Japan to study the dual-track education system, etc. Which sort of disappeared into the woodwork over the past lost decade, with the US telling Japan to emulate US neo-liberal capitalism rather than the miti-directed industrial policy, state-interventionist way, and Germany to reform and throw away its social democracy.
kj khoo
At 8:53 pm -0700 2/7/04, Michael Perelman wrote:
>There was a lot of talk about this after the first Gulf War. I have not heard
>anything afterwards.
>
>On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 04:41:11AM +0500, uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>> The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
>>
>> January/February 1990
>>
>> Vol. 46, No. 1
>>
>> New weapon label: Made in Japan
>>
>> Steven K. Vogel
>>
>> "Japanese companies have now caught up with U.S. producers in most of the
>> basic technologies necessary for defense production. A 1989 Pentagon report
>> judges that Japan leads the United States in 6 of 22 technologies critical
>> to national security and the long-term superiority of U.S. weapons systems:
>>
>> microelectronic circuits, gallium arsenide semiconductors, machine
>> intelligence and robotics, integrated optics, superconductivity, and
>> biotechnology materials.3 Furthermore, Japanese producers have a significant
>> advantage in product reliability and production technology."
>>
> > http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1990/jf90/jf90vogel.html