Part 1 Economic issues: barriers to trade talks, Lawrence W. Foster; Japanese direct investment in the US, Kiyoshi Abe; US deindustrialization and Pacific imports, David Cheng et al; international monetary policy coordination, Don Hooks; monetary and fiscal policy coordination, Kenji Komatsu; household saving rate, Mohamed Abdel-Ghany et al; development assistance, Shigeyuki Abe and Bruce Koppel. Part 2 Industrial and managerial issues: transfer of Japanese company culture, Motofusa Murayama; Japanese corporate English training, Chadwick B. Hilton; telecommunications trade friction, Meheroo Jussawalla and Barbara Ross-Pfeiffer; economic incentives and computer software, Harold See; property rights in computer software, Sumner J. La Croix; steel restructuring in Japan and the US, Trevor Bain; import liberalization and domestic beef, Yasuhiko Yuize; auto industry human resource strategies, James Cashman. Part 3 Conclusion: an overview of coordination concerns, Kiyoshi Abe et al. Appendix A: US-Japan relations in the 1990s, Charles E. Morrison. Appendix: The chibama project, Marilyn B. Emplaincourt.