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Intro -- UNITED STATES-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS PROSPECTS AND POLICIES -- UNITED STATES-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS PROSPECTS AND POLICIES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS: SIGNIFICANCE, PROSPECTS, AND POLICY OPTIONS -- SUMMARY -- AN OVERVIEW OF U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC TRENDS -- The Japanese and U.S. Economies -- U.S.-Japanese Trade in Goods and Services -- U.S.-Japan Bilateral Investment -- THE BILATERAL ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP AND SHIFTING U.S. AND JAPANESE POLICY PRIORITIES -- THE EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI, AND NUCLEAR ACCIDENT IN NORTHEASTERN JAPAN -- ISSUES AND PROSPECTS -- Agriculture -- Byrd Amendment -- Services -- Zeroing -- Doha -- OVERARCHING ISSUES -- PROSPECTS AND POLICY OPTIONS -- Reliance on the WTO -- Special Frameworks -- FTA -- Regional Agreements-TPP -- APPENDIX. MANAGING THE U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP-A BRIEF HISTORY -- The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 JAPAN'S POSSIBLE ENTRY INTO THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AND ITS IMPLICATIONS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE TPP -- U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC TIES -- U.S.-Japan Trade Trends -- Managing the Trade Relationship -- PENDING CHALLENGES AND THE TPP -- Market Access for U.S. Beef -- Market Access for U.S.-Made Autos -- Insurance, Express Delivery, and Japan Post -- OVERALL U.S. OBJECTIVES -- Market Access -- Rules-based Trade Framework and Impartial Dispute Settlement -- Enhanced TPP -- Foreign Policy Interests -- JAPAN'S OBJECTIVES -- JAPANESE POLITICS AND THE TPP -- THE VIEWS OF U.S. STAKEHOLDERS -- OUTLOOK, POSSIBLE OUTCOMES, AND CONSEQUENCES -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 UNITED STATES-JAPAN ECONOMIC HARMONIZATION INITITAIVE -- U.S. AGENDA ITEMS -- Information and Communication Technologies -- Communications -- Information Technologies -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Japan Post -- Insurance -- Transparency

This paper is quite different from the usual Japan Economic Seminar presentation. Rather than a piece of original research, this paper is a summary of personal views and reflections about the current status of the U.S.-Japan economic relationship. The purpose is to stimulate discussion at our seminar meeting about the relationship, somewhat in continuation of what transpired at the seminar's Washington meeting concerning Marcus Noland's paper. If there is a theme or conclusion to the following pages, it is that economists need to be less purely academic in their approach to bilateral issues. Important problems do exist in the bilateral relationship; they are not all necessarily true economic problems, but neither are they simply "political" issues which economists tend to view with disdain. Dealing with these problems obviously requires tact and diplomacy, but they can be ignored only at the peril of seriously damaging the overall economic and strategic relationship. Especially now that the cold war is over, and economic aspects of the U.S.-Japan relationship are receiving relatively more attention than in the past, economists have a responsibility to be closely involved in considering the nature of the problems and their possible solutions.