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Japan's Growing Power Over East Asia And The World Economy; Destinies Shared: U.S.-Japanese Relations

William R. Nester
Edited by Paul Gordon Lauren and Raymond F. Wylie
Reviewed by By Donald S. Zagoria
Spring 1990
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William R. Nester
St. Martin's
1990
282 pp.
$49.95
Edited by Paul Gordon Lauren and Raymond F. Wylie
Westview Press
1989
198 pp.
$34.95

These two volumes provide considerable background on the U.S.-Japanese relationship, where it stands today, and the alternative courses it might take in the critical years ahead. The tone of Destinies Shared, which is a collection of essays by specialists, is more optimistic than that of Nester. Both volumes suffer from the lack of a macroeconomic perspective and from the absence of a sufficiently detailed, up-to-date analysis of Japanese-U.S. economic relations.

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