ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the problem at hand from a Japanese perspective. An adversary relationship between the United States and Japan has been gathering force for quite some time. One of Japan's chief advantages in international trade was that its plant siting on the sea shore was very economical. Also, on the international plane, Japan has problems with respect to north-south relationships, and east-west relationships. Germany and Japan were very resistant to the procedures implied by the locomotive strategy, namely policies of monetary and fiscal expansion. The United States, Japan and Germany were designated as the locomotives, and the United States adopted that policy, urging Germany and Japan to do likewise. The Native regional corporations could organize export departments which would make contact with the Alaska representative offices abroad, especially in Japan, and do business with the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.
