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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 1, 1965
U.S., Japan: Mutual Affection
By Lacy Banks
The greatest political love story since World War II is the diplomatic and commercial affair between the United States and Japan.
We need them; they need us.
In trade, the two nations are the most important partners to each other in the world and that relation of economic interdependence is expected to increase in the future.
THE UNITED STATES is the top customer for Japanese goods and Japan is second to Canada in the purchase of U.S. goods. Concerning agricultural goods, Japan is the largest U.S. customer.
Commenting on this relationship Klaus Pringsheim, acting assistant professor of political science, said the balance of trade is in favor of the U.S., since we are presently exporting more of our products to Japan than she is of hers to us. This advantage shifts back and forth, he said.
Japan has made great strides in industry since World War II. Today, she is the fourth greatest industrial power in the world, and the economic giant of East Asia. Her industrial acceleration has been sparked by the pressures and demands of her abundance of population, 95,000,000 people; her derth of land, 147,000 square miles, slightly larger than Montana, and her poverty of natural resources.
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After World War II Japan and the U.S. recognized peaceful and constructive aims between each other. Japan strived her best to modernize the national structure and elevate industrial structure with more emphasis on heavy chemical industry.
THIS WAS MADE possible mainly because of American techniques, capital, market, and spending abroad. The Japanese began to turn out top quality products in electronics—transistors, radios, televisions—and in optics—cameras, binoculars, microscopes.
The United States began to invest in many Japanese companies because cheap labor made the products inexpensive on the world markets. Japan was desperate for trade in order to provide business, and feed her people.
Many U.S. businessmen have not only invested money, by stock, into Japanese companies, but they have even built factories in Japan, Prof. Pringsheim said. Names like Coca Cola and Mobile Oil are common in Japan, and the U.S. is making good profits too, he said.
But this isn't one-sided, he continued. There are now many rich Japanese businessmen who are investing in American businesses, and even building factories here likewise, he said.
"SO EVERYBODY'S making money and everybody's happy," he said, "so you can say it is a love affair."
The Japanese have been popularly known as the world's greatest "copy cats" because of their imitations of Western culture, especially industry. But Prof. Pringsheim said that day has gone.
Japanese designs in architecture and electronics have become very popular, he said. He gaves examples of the buildings in Tokyo housing the Olympics last year. Many post cards and calendars displayed the
colorful, modern architecture, which was all designed by Japanese, Prof. Pringsheim said.
Commenting on the Japanese economy, Yusuke Kawarabayashi, graduate student from Kyoto, Japan, said the country's economic growth is coming along quite well.
"IMEDIATELY AFTER World War II we had to keep all the products from our heavy industries for domestic use," he said. "Thus, we were exporting very cheap products of poor quality, but we made a good business off them."
"After we got better adjusted we began to export all our industrial goods in order to meet our people's needs. Our trading partners include Red China and Russian. At first this was not well accepted by the U.S., but since, they have been more understanding."
Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, in his recent conference with U.S. diplomats in Washington, Kawarabayashi said, told Americans that for the sake of survival, it was
KAWARABAYASHI SAID his country is also involved with the U.S. in giving foreign aid to developing countries. One of Japan's main tools in this area is her Peace Corps program, he said.
imperative for Japan to trade with Russia and Red China.
"This program is somewhat different from the American Peace Corps program," he said. "Through this program, which is conducted with developing countries, we send technicians to build factories which we sell to those countries, our trading partners, at a non-profit price."
Not only is there a commercial and political courtship between the two countries but there is a military one too, Prof. Pringsheim said.
THROUGH THE U.S.-Japan Security Pact, the U.S. holds a nuclear umbrella over Japan's head.
Japan Topic of Talk At Far East Meeting
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Six professors from KU left for San Francisco today to attend the 17th annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies.
They are Professors Robert A. Burton, Norman G. Jacobs, Thomas R. Smith, Edgar B. Wickberg and Frank H. H. King from the Department of East Asian Area Studies and Klaus Pringshem, acting assistant professor of political science.
The conference will be held from Apr. 2-4 by the only professional organization in its field in America. Every year experts from over the United States and the world take part in the conference.
Delegates present their latest research material in the form of
Japan is not permitted to keep an army, Kawarabayashi said, because of provisions in its constitution. But anyway, Japan is so busy with her economic tasks that she doesn't have much time to give to military pursuits, he said.
papers and panel discussions. Prof Jacobs will present a paper on Japanese economic development.
His paper "Institutional Organizations and Japanese Growth" is based on the institutional approach to the study of Japanese economy. His defense is that growth is not necessary for economic development. In other words, Dr. Jacobs' contention is that economic development has to develop out of its own resources.
the conference this year is expected to be attended by over 2,000 delegates and observers.
Just as lovers occasionally involve in quarrels, there are a few disputes that arise at times between these two intimate nations, the interviewees agreed.
Some people from both nations don't feel the U.S. and Japan should be courting each other so closely on the commercial and military levels, Kawarabayashi said.
LIKEWISE, SOME Japanese laborers and students don't approve of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty or anything that means military weapons on Japanese soil, "but I believe that these are merely the leftist groups and are not very significant," Kawarabayashi said.
But despite these few adverse elements, the two countries are still seeking friendly, close relations. As Kawarabayashi said, we need each other.
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