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Japan: Prospects for Greater Market Openness

Description: Japan has made considerable progress in opening its economy to imports, but significant obstacles remain. This report analyzes the underlying causes of Japan's market protection and assesses the prospects for Japan moving in the direction of greater market openness.
Date: June 26, 1989
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Japan-U.S. Trade Negotiations: Will the Deadlock Be Broken?

Description: The United States and Japan have been deadlocked for over a year in an effort to reach agreements under the July 1993 Framework for a New Economic Relationship. The overriding obstacle has concerned the issue of how to measure progress under future agreements to open Japan's market further to foreign goods and services.
Date: September 13, 1994
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Japan’s Free Trade Agreement Program

Description: This report discusses Japan's free trade agreements (FTAs) with other countries (mainly in Asia). It details Japan's agricultural constraints regarding their FTA while also examining how it may have various effects on U.S. interests.
Date: August 22, 2005
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Japan's Response to U.S. Trade Pressures: End of an Era?

Description: Over the past 30 years, U.S. trade negotiators have pressured Japan to open its market to foreign goods and services. These outside pressures, known as gaiatsu in Japan, have been based partly on economically coercive bargaining and partly on invitation. The coercive element, which has entailed threats of retaliatory market constriction should a satisfactory resolution of the market opening dispute not be forthcoming, generally has been a necessary ingredient in obtaining concessions from Japan… more
Date: June 12, 1995
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with Colonel John. E. Olson, March 15, 1998

Description: Interview with Colonel John E. Olson, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Leavenworth, Kansas. Olson discusses his family background, commissioning in the Army from West Point, assignment to the Philippines in 1939 as an infantry officer, the start of the war, withdrawal to Bataan and the ensuing battle and surrender, the Bataan Death March, internment at Cabanatuan, transfer to Osaka, experiences there in internment at a factory labor camp, liberation, organizing the evacuation of POWs, returning… more
Date: March 15, 1998
Creator: Alexander, Bill & Olson, John E.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Admiral Barry Atkins, February 20 and 21, 1997

Description: Interview with Admiral Barry K. Atkins, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard destroyers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early education in England; U.S. Naval Academy, 1928-32; assignment to the USS Tennessee, 1932-33; assignment to the USS New Mexico, 1933-36; assignment to the USS Mahan, 1936-38; assignment to the USS Cuyama, 1938-39; developing techniques for refueling at sea; assignment to the U.S. Naval Academy, 1939-41; assignment to the Asiatic Fleet with the USS… more
Date: 1997-02-20/1997-02-21
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Atkins, Barry K.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by t… more
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Frank H. Bigelow, June 13, 2002

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Frank H. Bigelow, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. The interview includes Bigelow's personal experiences about being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boyhood in North Dakota, various jobs during the Great Depression, and enlisting in the Navy. Additionally, Bigelow speaks about volunteering for duty in the Philippines and his assignment to the submarine tender USS Canopus, pre-war military life in the Philippines, the Japanese bombing of Cav… more
Date: June 13, 2002
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bigelow, Frank H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with General Alpha Lyons Bowser, March 12, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with General Alpha Lyons Bowser, a Marine Corps veteran (3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division), concerning his experiences as an artillery officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bowser also discusses his role in planning the Inchon landing, 1950, during the Korean War.
Date: March 12, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bowser, Alpha Lyons
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with George Charland, December 7, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with George E. Charland, a Native American Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences during World War II. Charland discusses his experiences with the 3rd Marine Defense Battalion during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his experiences with the 2nd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, at Guadalcanal, 1942; his experiences with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, at Tarawa, 1943; his experiences with the 4t… more
Date: December 7, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Charland, George E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with John J. Clemens, May 13, 2003

Description: Interview with John J. Clemens. The interview includes Clemens' personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas, World War II-era service in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard USS Wren in the Pacific Theater, and piloting a ship into Tokyo Bay immediately following the Japanese surrender. Clemens speaks about convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean, the January 4, 1944 sinking of the USS Turner while moored in New York Harbor and the court of inquiry regarding the sinkin… more
Date: May 13, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Clemens, John J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Richard E. Cole, August 8, 2000

Description: Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Richard E. Cole describing personal experiences about being Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot during the Tokyo Raid on April 8, 1942, pre-war education, flight training, volunteering for a secret mission and meeting Colonel Doolittle, being assigned as Doolittle's co-pilot, mission training, various B-25 missions against Japanese targets in China and Burma, flying supplies over "The Hump." transferring to the states and volunteering for service in Burma with the … more
Date: August 8, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Cole, Richard E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Captain Victor Delano, March 13, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with Captain Victor Delano, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Delano discusses his first assignment to the battleship USS West Virginia and his experiences during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to the antiaircraft cruiser USS San Juan, 1942; naval battles around Guadalcanal; Battle of Savo Island; assignment to the destroyer USS Wedderburn, 1944; Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944; Paci… more
Date: March 13, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Delano, Victor
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Robert Donihi, October 13, 1996

Description: Interview with Robert Donihi, attorney, concerning his role and experiences as a prosecuting attorney at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East [Tokyo War Crimes Trials], 1945-46. His early law career; acquaintanceship with U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark and appointment to the Tribunal; the organization of the Tribunal and comments about the representatives on it; his role with the International Prosecution Section; his account of the suicide of Prince Fumimaro Konoye; his role i… more
Date: October 13, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Donihi, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Billy Drawe, June 13, 2000

Description: Interview with dairyman and Marine Corps veteran Billy Drawe. The interview includes Drawe's personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, enlistment and boot camp, tank training, invading Guam, coming under Japanese mortar fire on Guam, invading Iwo Jima, hauling supplies ashore to the infantry on Iwo Jima, and returning to the states for training in the V-12 Program.
Date: June 13, 2000
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Drawe, Billy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with William J. Fisk, December 26, 1996

Description: Interview with William J. Fisk, a Navy veteran (VPB-123), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the crew of a PB4Y-2; his unauthorized participation in a combat mission out of Okinawa over the Sea of Japan; battle damage to his plane; description of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from aerial observations after the dropping of the atomic bombs.
Date: December 26, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Fisk, William J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with General Robert E. Galer, March 14, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with General Robert E. Galer, a Marine Corps veteran (VMF-224) and recipient of the Medal of Honor, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Galer discusses his pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the "destroyers-for bases" deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-224, August 30, 19… more
Date: March 14, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Galer, Robert E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with William R. Gill, October 13, 1996

Description: Transcript of an interview with William R. Gill, agronomist and Army veteran (A Company, 389th Infantry Regiment, 98th Division), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II and his experiences and role in the Pacific War Crimes Tribunal in postwar Japan. Appendix includes five leaves from "The hunt for Tokyo Rose,' By Russell Warren Howe and four leaves from "Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific," by Masayo Duus.
Date: October 13, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Gill, William R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with John W. Lee, April 5, 2003

Description: Interview with John W. Lee, a Navy veteran (USS Balao), concerning his experiences aboard the submarine USS Balao in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in San Antonio, Texas; his decision to join the Navy, June, 1942; boot camp, San Diego, California, 1942; assignment to the submarine tender USS Sperry, 1942, and stationing at Brisbane, Australia; his volunteering for submarine duty and assignment to the Balao, September, 1943; general accounts of various war patrols; being dept… more
Date: April 5, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Lee, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Sam B. Moody, October 10, 1996

Description: Interview with Sam B. Moody, an Army Air Forces veteran (Far East Air Force) and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O'Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; Clark Field, Manila, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Nagoya, Honshu, 1944-45; American air raids; liberation; his role in the Tokyo war crimes trials, 1946-47.
Date: October 10, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Moody, Sam B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with John Rich, October 12, 1996

Description: Transcript of an interview with John Rich, journalist and Marine Corps veteran (4th Marine Division), concerning his experiences as a Japanese language interpreter/interrogator in the Pacific Theater during World War II and his observations as a journalist while covering the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Rich discusses his pre-war career in journalism; U.S. Navy Japanese Language School, University of Colorado, 1942-43; assignment to the 4th Marine Divisio… more
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Rich, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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