The United States And Japan

Author : Peter Tieryas
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857665348

Get Book

United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas Pdf

This “interesting and excited to read” spiritual sequel to The Man in The High Castle focuses on the New Japanese Empire—from an acclaimed author and essayist (io9) Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan’s conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons—a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what the world might be like if the United States had won the war instead. Captain Beniko Ishimura’s job is to censor video games, and he’s tasked with getting to the bottom of this disturbing new development. But Ishimura’s hiding something . . . He’s slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive videogame’s origins are even more controversial and dangerous than the censors originally suspected. Part detective story, part brutal alternate history, United States of Japan is a stunning successor to Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. File under: Science Fiction [ Gamechanger | Area #11 | Robot Wars | Strike Back the Empire ]

Author : Kenneth B. Pyle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674989085

Get Book

Japan in the American Century by Kenneth B. Pyle Pdf

No nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to power than Japan. The price paid to end the most intrusive reconstruction of a nation in modern history was a cold war alliance with the U.S. that ensured American dominance in the region. Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of this relationship at a time when the alliance is changing.

Author : Yukio Noguchi,David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226590219

Get Book

Aging in the United States and Japan by Yukio Noguchi,David A. Wise Pdf

Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries. With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countries and that, as the populations age, baby boomers in the United States will face diminishing financial resources as the ratio of retirees to workers sharply increases. The result of a joint venture between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, this book complements Housing Markets in the United States and Japan (1994) by integrating research on housing markets with economic issues of the aged in the United States and Japan.

Author : Yukio Noguchi,James M. Poterba
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226590202

Get Book

Housing Markets in the United States and Japan by Yukio Noguchi,James M. Poterba Pdf

Although Japan and the United States are the world's leading economies, there are significant differences in the ways their wealth is translated into living standards. A careful comparison of housing markets illustrates not only how living standards in the two countries differ, but also reveals much about saving patterns and how they affect wealth accumulation. In this volume, ten essays discuss the evolution of housing prices, housing markets and personal savings, housing finance, commuting, and the impact of public policy on housing markets. The studies reveal surprising differences in housing investment in the two countries. For example, because down payments in Japan are much higher than in the United States, Japanese tend to delay home purchases relative to their American counterparts. In the United States, the advent of home equity credit may have reduced private saving overall. This book is the first comparison of housing markets in Japan and the United States, and its findings illuminate the effects of housing markets on productivity growth, business investment, and trade.

Author : Fumio Hayashi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262082551

Get Book

Understanding Saving by Fumio Hayashi Pdf

Analysis of consumption and saving decisions by households has always been one of the most active areas of research in economics--and with good reason. Private consumption is the most important component of aggregate demand in a capitalist economy, and explaining consumption is the key element in most macroeconomic forecasting models. To evaluate the effect of government policies invariably requires the knowledge of how they change parameters relevant for household decision making. Understanding Saving collects eleven papers by economist Fumio Hayashi, along with two previously unpublished chapters, for a total of thirteen chapters. The monograph, which brings together Hayashi's empirical research on saving, is divided into three sections. Part I, "Liquidity Constraints", contains five studies that test the well-known implication of the Life Cycle-Permanent Income hypothesis that households shield consumption from income fluctuations. Part II, "Risk-Sharing and Altruism", contains three papers that examine the interactions between related and unrelated households predicted by the hypothesis for the US and Japanese households. The three papers in Part III, "Japanese Saving Behavior", present the author's explanation of the high saving rate in postwar Japan.

Author : Michael Schaller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195069167

Get Book

Altered States by Michael Schaller Pdf

Here is an eye-opening history of U.S.-Japan relations from the end of World War II to the present, revealing startling complexities. Acclaimed political history writer Michael Schaller reveals that most of what we criticize today in Japan's behavior stems directly from U.S. occupation policy of the 1950s.

Author : Aaron Forsberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807860663

Get Book

America and the Japanese Miracle by Aaron Forsberg Pdf

In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War. His fresh interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in the wider world during the 1950s. Drawing on a wealth of recently released American, British, and Japanese archival records, Forsberg demonstrates that American Cold War strategy and the U.S. commitment to liberal trade played a central role in promoting Japanese economic welfare and in forging the economic relationship between Japan and the United States. The price of economic opportunity and interdependence, however, was a strong undercurrent of mutual frustration, as patterns of conflict and compromise over trade, investment, and relations with China continued to characterize the postwar U.S.-Japanese relationship. Forsberg's emphasis on the dynamic interaction of Cold War strategy, the business environment, and Japanese development challenges "revisionist" interpretations of Japan's success. In exploring the complex origins of the U.S.-led international economy that has outlasted the Cold War, Forsberg refutes the claim that the U.S. government sacrificed American commercial interests in favor of its military partnership with Japan.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCBK:C098846268

Get Book

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Mireya Solis
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815729204

Get Book

Dilemmas of a Trading Nation by Mireya Solis Pdf

The balancing of competing interests and goals will have momentous consequences for Japan—and the United States—in their quest for economic growth, social harmony, and international clout. Japan and the United States face difficult choices in charting their paths ahead as trading nations. Tokyo has long aimed for greater decisiveness, which would allow it to move away from a fragmented policymaking system favoring the status quo in order to enable meaningful internal reforms and acquire a larger voice in trade negotiations. And Washington confronts an uphill battle in rebuilding a fraying domestic consensus in favor of internationalism essential to sustain its leadership role as a champion of free trade. In Dilemmas of a Trading Nation, Mireya Solís describes how accomplishing these tasks will require the skillful navigation of vexing tradeoffs that emerge from pursuing desirable, but to some extent contradictory goals: economic competitiveness, social legitimacy, and political viability. Trade policy has catapulted front and center to the national conversations taking place in each country about their desired future direction—economic renewal, a relaunched social compact, and projected international influence. Dilemmas of a Trading Nation underscores the global consequences of these defining trade dilemmas for Japan and the United States: decisiveness, reform, internationalism. At stake is the ability of these leading economies to upgrade international economic rules and create incentives for emerging economies to converge toward these higher standards. At play is the reaffirmation of a rules-based international order that has been a source of postwar stability, the deepening of a bilateral alliance at the core of America's diplomacy in Asia, and the ability to reassure friends and rivals of the staying power of the United States. In the execution of trade policy today, we are witnessing an international leadership test dominated by domestic governance dilemmas.

Author : Steven Kent Vogel
Publisher : Brookings Inst Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815706308

Get Book

U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World by Steven Kent Vogel Pdf

This volume reviews the past fifty years of the U.S.-Japan relationship and speculates about how it will evolve in the years to come.

Author : Michael D. Hurd,Naohiro Yashiro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226361024

Get Book

The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan by Michael D. Hurd,Naohiro Yashiro Pdf

Due to falling fertility rates, the aging of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the next two decades. These fourteen essays show that, despite differences in culture and social and government structure, population aging will have many similar macro and micro effects on the economic status and behavior of the elderly in both countries. The most obvious effects will be on social programs such as public pension systems and the provision for medical needs of the elderly. But, the contributors demonstrate, aging will also affect markets for labor, capital, housing, and health care services. It will affect firms through their participation in the demand side of the labor market and through their provisions for pensions. And aging will influence saving rates, the rate of return on assets, the balance of payments, and, most likely, economic growth. This volume will interest scholars and policy makers concerned with the economics of aging.

Author : Peter Tieryas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451491008

Get Book

Mecha Samurai Empire by Peter Tieryas Pdf

The Man in the High Castle meets Pacific Rim in this action-packed alternate history novel from the award-winning author of United States of Japan. Germany and Japan won WWII and control the U.S., and a young man has one dream: to become a mecha pilot. Makoto Fujimoto grew up in California, but with a difference--his California is part of the United States of Japan. After Germany and Japan won WWII, the United States fell under their control. Growing up in this world, Mac plays portical games, haphazardly studies for the Imperial Exam, and dreams of becoming a mecha pilot. Only problem: Mac's grades are terrible. His only hope is to pass the military exam and get into the prestigious mecha pilot training program at Berkeley Military Academy. When his friend Hideki's plan to game the test goes horribly wrong, Mac washes out of the military exam too. Perhaps he can achieve his dream by becoming a civilian pilot. But with tensions rising between the United States of Japan and Nazi Germany and rumors of collaborators and traitors abounding, Mac will have to stay alive long enough first...

Author : Jeffrey A. Frankel,Miles Kahler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226260242

Get Book

Regionalism and Rivalry by Jeffrey A. Frankel,Miles Kahler Pdf

As Japan's newfound economic power leads to increased political power, there is concern that Japan may be turning East Asia into a regional economic bloc to rival the U.S. and Europe. In Regionalism and Rivalry, leading economists and political scientists address this concern by looking at three central questions: Is Japan forming a trading bloc in Pacific Asia? Does Japan use foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia to achieve national goals? Does Japan possess the leadership qualities necessary for a nation assuming greater political responsibility in international affairs? The authors contend that although intraregional trade in East Asia is growing rapidly, a trade bloc is not necessarily forming. They show that the trade increase can be explained entirely by factors independent of discriminatory trading arrangements, such as the rapid growth of East Asian economies. Other chapters look in detail at cases of Japanese direct investment in Southeast Asia and find little evidence of attempts by Japan to use the power of its multinational corporations for political purposes. A third group of papers attempt to gauge Japan's leadership characteristics. They focus on Japan's "technology ideology," its contributions to international public goods, international monetary cooperation, and economic liberalization in East Asia.

Author : Keisuke Iida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317311416

Get Book

Japan's Security and Economic Dependence on China and the United States by Keisuke Iida Pdf

With the rise of China, Japan and many East Asian countries are caught between maximizing profit from economic ties with her, and strengthening alliances with the United States to prevent China from overpowering them. Liberals and realists thus debate over the likelihood of either security tensions easing up or economic interdependence getting reduced eventually. On the other hand, Iida introduces a new theory that reinterprets the relationship between state security and economic interdependence among countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Based on case studies of recent episodes in East Asia, and especially on the experiences of Japan, this book highlights an interesting dynamic between security and economic interdependence: risk avoidance. By understanding how risk avoidance affects the behavior of these countries in terms of security and economics, it becomes evident how they eventually settle into what Iida calls "Cool Politics" and "Lukewarm Economics".

Author : Melvyn P. Leffler,Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521837194

Get Book

The Cambridge History of the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler,Odd Arne Westad Pdf

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.