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 CIS NO: 82-J841-3
 TITLE: Japanese and American Economic Policies and U.S. Productivity.
 SOURCE: Committee on Economic. Joint
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+254 p. il.
 DATE: June 23, July 28, 1981
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 97-1              SUDOC: Y4.Ec7:J27/3
 ITEM NO: 1000-B; 1000-C
 LC CARD NO: 82-601062               MC ENTRY NO: 82-6783

 Hearings before the Subcom on Monetary and Fiscal Policy and the Subcom on
 Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth to examine factors affecting
 workplace productivity and product quality. Focuses on comparison of
 Japanese and U.S. business management techniques to instill worker
 satisfaction and increase productivity.
   Includes submitted statements (p. 138-198).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Productivity and product quality, Japanese/US mgmt
     techniques comparison
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON MONETARY AND FISCAL
     POLICY. JOINT; SUBCOM ON TRADE, PRODUCTIVITY, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH.
     JOINT; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY (Japanese and US mgmt techniques
     comparison); INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; COMPETITION; LABOR-MANAGEMENT
     RELATIONS; JAPAN

 82-J841-3 TESTIMONY NO: 1          June 23, 1981 p. 1-48
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     YAWATA, KEISKE (pres, NEC Electronics, USA)
     HAGUE, THOMAS M. (Asian dir, Borg-Warner Corp.; also representing
        Advisory Council on Japan-US Economic Relations and Amer Chamber of
        Commerce in Japan)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Explanation of Japanese management techniques,
     including quality control circle and consensus decisionmaking;
     comparison of Japanese and American managerial styles; recommendations
     for improving U.S. productivity and competitiveness, focusing on tax
     policy and capital formation requirements (related memo, p. 25-36);
     issues involved in Japanese-American trade.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Productivity and product quality, Japanese/US mgmt
     techniques comparison
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): NEC ELECTRONICS, U.S.A.;
     ADVISORY COUNCIL ON JAPAN-U.S. ECONOMIC RELATIONS; AMERICAN CHAMBER OF
     COMMERCE IN JAPAN; TAXATION (Productivity and competition, US tax
     policy impact); FOREIGN.TRADE (Japan-US trade relations); CAPITAL
     FORMATION; BORG-WARNER CORP.

 82-J841-3 TESTIMONY NO: 2          July 28, 1981 p. 51-137, 199-254
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     TANAKA, H. WILLIAM (former pres, Japan-Amer Soc)
     BRADFORD, CHARLES A. (vp, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith,
        Inc)
     HOWE, NATHANIEL S. (vp and group exec, machine tool systems group,
        Litton Industries; representing Natl Machine Tool Builders' Assn)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Differences between U.S. and Japanese
     industry-government relationships reflected in attitudes toward
     regulation; comparison of Japanese and American management philosophies;
     recommendations for American business reorganization to increase
     productivity; adverse effects of regulation on U.S. steel industry.
       Problems of U.S. machine tool industry in competing with Japan
     (graphs, tables, p. 127-131); report on machine tool executives
     observations during June 1981 tour of Japanese plants (technical rpt, p.
     132-137); analysis of economic drawbacks to U.S. industrial expansion;
     advantages of Japanese labor-management practices, particularly lifetime
     employment assurances and worker training programs.
 INSERTION: 
     -- Aron, Paul H. (Daiwa Securities Amer, Inc), "Robots Revisited:
        One Year Later" rpt on Japanese industry July 28, 1981, with tables
        (p. 215-251).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Productivity and product quality, Japanese/US mgmt
     techniques comparison
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND
     PROCEDURE (Japanese and US regulatory practices impact on business);
     IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (Regulatory practices impact on steel
     industry); INDUSTRIAL PLANTS AND EQUIPMENT (Japanese machine tool
     plants, US execs tour observations); MANPOWER TRAINING PROGRAMS
     (Japanese labor-mgmt practices assessment); GOVERNMENT.AND.BUSINESS;
     AUTOMATION ("Robots Revisited: One Year Later," rpt on Japanese
     industry); DAWIA SECURITIES AMERICA ("Robots Revisited: One Year
     Later," rpt on Japanese industry); NATIONAL MACHINE TOOL BUILDERS'
     ASSOCIATION; MERRILL LYNCH AND CO.; MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY