n percent of the Japanese market (Jackson, 1993, p. 45).
The Japanese-American automobile-industry trade dispute has thus, over two decades, placed serious strains on the overall economic and political relationship between the two allies. In the United States, a school of "revisionist" analysts of Japan have drawn a stark picture of a Japan which, in spite of the outward trappings of parliamentary democracy, remains fundamentally a quasi-feudal society, bent on domination, though now through economic rather than military force (Jackson, 1993, p. 39). On the other side, some Japanese voices have been unsparingly critical of American society, and of Japan's supposedly deferential attitude toward the United States, a view evocatively expressed in book titles such as The Japan That Can Say No (Jackson, 1993, p. 33).
Echoes of the disagreement have been felt across the whole range of trade, from agriculture to computers and other high-technology products--and, indeed, over the whole relationship between the two nations--but the automobile market and automobil
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