Under the new world order, Japan's international business activity is being organized through tight networks that link banks, industrial corporations and trading companies and that are displacing their main domestic problems onto Asia. This book argues that since the US and Europe are refusing to fulfil that function, Japan is forming a new three-zone strategy in which production, marketing and finance are tightly co-ordinated within each zone but in which there is also an overall shift away from North America and Europe towards Asia.
Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Tables - List of Abbreviations - The Emerging New World Order - Domestic Crisis: Motor of Internationalisation - Foreign Investment Zone Strategies - Foreign Investment Industrial Strategies - Trade: From Patriotic Duty to Corporate Strategy - Finance for the Rich, 'Aid' for the Poor - Conclusion: Patterned Underdevelopment in the New World Order - References - Index
