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Quiz for America Compared: “Japan and America: Global Partners”

Question

1. Among the “sources of bilateral friction,” Funabashi listed the trade imbalance. He believed this might cause friction in the 1990s and beyond for what reason?

The United States’ domination of Japan’s import market would make the Japanese feel as if their country were still occupied by the United States.

Japan was striving to develop its major industries and wanted the United States to lower its tariffs on Japanese goods, including cars.

Japanese steel, cars, and electronics dominated American markets, which would increase the two countries’ sense of competition with one another.

Americans’ growing dependence on Japanese products would make it increasingly defensive and determined to close the trade gap.

Correct. The answer is c. Funabashi believed that the success of Japanese corporations that produced steel, cars, and electronics as well as the growing importance of those products in American markets would increase economic competition between the United States and Japan in the years following the end of the Cold War.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Funabashi believed that the success of Japanese corporations that produced steel, cars, and electronics as well as the growing importance of those products in American markets would increase economic competition between the United States and Japan in the years following the end of the Cold War.

Question

2. What historical development did Funabashi believe had fundamentally shifted the relationship between the United States and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s?

American deindustrialization

The emergence of China as an international economic power

The tremendous growth of the electronics industry

The end of the Cold War

Correct. The answer is d. Funabashi cited the end of the Cold War as the event that had “drastically altered the global geopolitical and geoeconomic context that shaped Japanese-U.S. relations.” That event, he suggested, would require the United States to set aside its view of itself as the leader of the free world and recognize that it was just one of many major powers, including Japan.

Incorrect. The answer is d. Funabashi cited the end of the Cold War as the event that had “drastically altered the global geopolitical and geoeconomic context that shaped Japanese-U.S. relations.” That event, he suggested, would require the United States to set aside its view of itself as the leader of the free world and recognize that it was just one of many major powers, including Japan.