US Vs Japan | The Trade War that Reshaped a Nation | How the United States Undermined Japan’s Economic Rise

This case study explores how the United States, through a combination of strategic economic policies, forced diplomatic agreements, and trade measures, effectively curtailed Japan’s economic trajectory. Though never acknowledged as an explicit economic war, the measures taken by the United States during the 1980s and 1990s inflicted long-lasting structural damage on Japan’s economy.