and industrial production, especially in high-tech industries of great import on the international scene today and into the future. The U.S. has recently started giving Japan greater attention in order to discern the management styles used in Japan and to emulate them to the greatest degree possible, and because of the increase in Japanese investment in the U.S., with the opening of a certain number of Japanese manufacturing companies in the U.S., primarily to produce Japanese cars.
Most analysts approach the Japanese economic system apparently with the idea that the Japanese system has to be superior given the results achieved and the way Japan leads the United States, often portraying the matter as simply one highly efficient country compared with a country that has lost its competitive edge. Thurow sees the matter as more complex when he writes:
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