Japan reached a point where they were producing cars and electronics of superior quality than domestic US manufacturers and it made US Americans bug out about losing their grip on world domination, much like they are today with China.
At the time Giovanni Arrighi was writing “The Long Twentieth Century,” (published in '95) he predicted Japan would replace the United States position as global hegemon.
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