X 226 pages 24 cm miles fletcher examines the role of the japanese business community in helping the nation solve an unprecedented combination of economic challenges in the 1920s and 1930s chronic trade deficits world depression rampant protectionism and mobilization for war in asia because of such severe crises business executives changed their attitudes toward foreign trade and . Read the full text online edition of the japanese business community and national trade policy 1920 1942 1989. Get this from a library the japanese business community and national trade policy 1920 1942 william miles fletcher iii miles fletcher examines the role of the japanese business community in helping the nation solve an unprecedented combination of economic challenges in the 1920s and 1930s chronic trade deficits . Fletcher concludes that the travails of the interwar period forged a conviction that the japanese business community has maintained well into the 1980s as a guiding concept the task of expanding japans international trade resembles a form of competitive warfare demanding national strategies originally published in 1989. The japanese business community and national trade policy 1920 1942 unc press enduring editions william miles fletcher iii on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers miles fletcher examines the role of the japanese business community in helping the nation solve an unprecedented combination of economic challenges in the 1920s and 1930s chronic trade deficits