Japan Joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership: What Are the Implications? (open access)

Japan Joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership: What Are the Implications?

This report provides an overview of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and discusses Japans negotiations of becoming a member of this organization. The report discusses U.S.-Japan economic ties, overall U.S. objectives, Japan's objectives, Japanese politics and the TPP, possible outcomes and consequences.
Date: August 13, 2013
Creator: Cooper, William H. & Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Cooperation on Ballistic Missile Defense: Issues and Prospects (open access)

Japan-U.S. Cooperation on Ballistic Missile Defense: Issues and Prospects

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Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Global Partnership: Implications of the Postponement of the President's November 1991 Trip to Japan (open access)

Japan-U.S. Global Partnership: Implications of the Postponement of the President's November 1991 Trip to Japan

Both the Bush Administration and the new Japanese Government headed by Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa had given considerable importance to the President,s planned trip to Tokyo in late November, now postponed in the interest of attending to domestic concerns.
Date: November 8, 1991
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations in a Post-Cold War Environment: Emerging Trends and Issues for U.S. Policy (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations in a Post-Cold War Environment: Emerging Trends and Issues for U.S. Policy

The prospects for Japan-U.S. relations in a rapidly changing minternational environment were explored in depth in a September 27, 1991, CRS seminar entitled "The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations: Global Partnership or Strategic, Rivalry?" A full transcript of the proceedings was published in February 1992 by the House Committee on Ways and Means as a Committee Print. This report summarizes the principal findings of that seminar.
Date: March 24, 1992
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: March 13, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: April 25, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress

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Date: November 15, 2001
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress

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Date: March 7, 2002
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress

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Date: June 20, 2002
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress

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Date: August 15, 2002
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress

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Date: October 2, 2002
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 107th Congress

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Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Policy Issues for the Clinton Administration and the 103rd Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Policy Issues for the Clinton Administration and the 103rd Congress

The Clinton Administration and the 103rd Congress are in the early stages of a major review of U.S. trade, international and security relations with Japan, the principal U.S. ally and trading partner in Asia. A number of recent developments have raised tensions in this mutually beneficial relationship, which is still characterized by deepening economic interdependence and close political and security cooperation. These include the end of the Cold War, which has eliminated a common military threat; the recent renewed rise in Japan's trade surplus after several years of decline; and increasing international assertiveness by Japan, sometimes in conflict with U.S. policy.
Date: April 29, 1993
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japanese and U.S. Economic Involvement in Asia and the Pacific: Comparative Data and Analysis (open access)

Japanese and U.S. Economic Involvement in Asia and the Pacific: Comparative Data and Analysis

In a world in which economic and trade performance are fast gaining acceptance as important components of national power and well being, Congress has become increasingly interested in the comparative success of U.S. business in the vast, rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region. For the most part, Congress has tended to view Japan as the main competitor of the United States in Asian markets and the standard against which U.S. success is measured. The stakes for the United States are considerable. Exclusive of Japan, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for $ 92 billion in U.S. exports in 1993 and $ 138 billion in imports, or about 20 percent of total U.S. exports and 24 percent of U.S. global imports. A number of projections indicate that Asia will account for the largest share of world trade growth in the next decade. Japan's growing economic presence has been accompanied by a relative increase in its political influence vis-a-vis that of the United States, a factor of considerable long term significance for U.S. interests, and it would appear the availability of alternative Asian markets has strengthened Japan's resistance to U.S. trade demands.
Date: September 27, 1994
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan's New Era of Coalition Governance: Implications for U.S. Interests and Policy (open access)

Japan's New Era of Coalition Governance: Implications for U.S. Interests and Policy

Recent Japanese political instability has complicated U.S.-Japan relations and posed new challenges to the achievement of important American economic, foreign policy and security objectives. Since July 1993 Japan has been governed by coalitions under three different prime ministers. The first coalition, under Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, pushed through electoral and campaign finance reform legislation of potentially long-term significance, but failed to overcome political, bureaucratic and interest group resistance to its economic and administrative reform agenda. Its successor's have appeared to have progressively less power and will to carry out promised reforms or assume international leadership commensurate with Japan's global economic weight.
Date: March 15, 1995
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan's Ongoing Political Instability: Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Japan's Ongoing Political Instability: Implications for U.S. Interests

The surprise election of Socialist Party leader Tomiichi Murayama as Prime Minister on June 29, 1994, reflects an ongoing process of change and realignment in Japanese politics that, in the short term, has made the management of U.S.-Japan relations significantly more difficult and impeded the resolution of important issues. Although Murayama has pledged continuity in U.S.-Japan relations, and key cabinet posts have been given to senior LDP leaders with experience in dealing with Washington, his election could have a number of negative implications for U.S. interests. Among other possibilities, the change could temporarily set back the cause of political reform in Japan, further delay the recovery of the Japanese economy from a three-year long slump, pose new obstacles to trade negotiations aimed at more fully opening Japanese markets to U.S. goods and services, and bring into question Tokyo's cooperation under certain scenarios on the issue of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The likely hiatus in major decisionmaking may continue at least until the next general election.
Date: July 8, 1994
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: May 21, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P. & Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: May 30, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P. & Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: July 10, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P. & Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: August 8, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P. & Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: March 21, 2005
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.; Cooper, William H.; Manyin, Mark E. & Niksch, Larry A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: May 9, 2005
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.; Cooper, William H.; Manyin, Mark E. & Niksch, Larry A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library