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Author Steven, Rob.

Title Japan and the new world order : global investments, trade and finance / Rob Steven
Published London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996

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Description xiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1. The Emerging New World Order -- 2. Domestic Crisis: Motor of Internationalisation -- 3. Foreign Investment Zone Strategies -- 4. Foreign Investment Industrial Strategies -- 5. Trade: From Patriotic Duty to Corporate Strategy -- 6. Finance for the Rich, 'Aid' for the Poor -- 7. Conclusion: Patterned Underdevelopment in the New World Order
Summary Under today's world order, Japan's foreign investments, trade and financial activities are organised through networks. The multiple linkages among Japanese banks, industrial corporations and trading companies enable them to displace on to Asia some major domestic problems, especially the imbalance between Japan's tremendous productive power and its limited market capacity. Originally the surplus goods were exported to the USA and Europe, but the latter's power to refuse caused the yen to rise intolerably and Japan to look to Asia for comprehensive solutions. A new three-zone strategy requires production, marketing and finance to be tightly coordinated within each zone, but also an overall shift away from North America and Europe towards Asia, which is rapidly becoming not simply the main site of overseas production for Japanese companies but also their main overseas markets and borrowers
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 271-278
Subject Investments, Japanese.
SUBJECT Japan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78089021 -- Foreign economic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005782
LC no. 95033034
ISBN 0312129661 (U.S.)
0333610059
0333610067 (paperback)