Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation

by Michael Schaller

Book Overview

The relationship between the United States and Japan is torn by contrary impulses. We face each other across the Pacific as friends and allies, as the two most powerful economies in the world--and as suspicious rivals. Americans admire the industry of the Japanese, but we resent the huge trade deficit that has developed between us, due to what we consider to be unfair trade practices and "unlevel playing fields." Now, in Altered States, historian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195069161
• ISBN13: 9780195069167
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"