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Focuses on talks between President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa over the United States access to Japanese markets. Concessions offered by Japan; Goals of the U.S. Administration; Japanese violation of 1989 agreement; Issuing of Super 301 sanctions; Greatest peril for Japan; Consequences of sanctions on American companies.

Reports on developments in the trade negotiations between the governments of the United States and Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's resistance to the trade concessions demanded by President Bill Clinton; Effect of the continuous appreciation of the Japanese yen against the dollar; Hosokawa's focus on political reform; Trade experts' advice to Clinton to bypass the Japanese bureaucrats.

Focuses on American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s entry into Japan's telecommunications industry. Reputation; Customized offerings; Appointment of Louis C. Golm to lead operations in Japan; Technical issues; Comments from industry executives.

Focuses on the opening of Japan's markets to products from the U.S. market; Options for retaliation concerning Japanese automobile makers purchase of parts from the U.S.; Impact on the dollar's rate; Japan's distribution system; Information that the Japanese officials are outraged by what they see as Washington's ploy to let the dollar fall to reduce the $150 billion U.S. merchandise trade deficit.

Addresses the growing trade deficit between the United States (US) and Japan. Disadvantage of sanctions in the form of punitive tariffs or quotas; Cooperation between the government and industry; Japan's per capita foreign direct investment; Japanese deregulation; Book `Opening Japan'; American trade goals and President Bill Clinton's Administration's technology-promotion policies.

The article comments on Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton. The talk focused on North Korean nuclear weapons, combating AIDS and environmental cooperation. However, Murayama's visit underscores how the U.S.-Japanese relations have fallen. Although Japan's trade surplus for 1994 reached $62.7 billion, the U.S. has abandoned efforts to reverse the imbalance within two years.

Reports on the trade negotiation between United States and Japan. Japan's agreement to increase governmental procurement of foreign medical technology and telecommunications; Extension of negotiations on opening Japan's market for flat glass; Withdrawal of US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor from Super 301 section in the trade law.

Opinion. Expresses support to the plan of US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to cite Japan under the `Super 301' law in efforts to gain access to Japanese markets. Forcing open Japanese markets for American products; Negative symbol of the Super 301 in the international economic community; Growing trade imbalance between the two countries.

Reports on United States President Bill Clinton's plans to push for market-opening trade deals with Japan. Clinton Administration's intention to capitalize on a strengthening yen; Overvaluation of the yen against world currencies; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade issues to be discussed at the annual economic summit of industrialized nations in Naples, Italy; Criticism of the administration's approaches.

Focuses on the trade relations of United States with Japan. President Bill Clinton's foreign policy; Former Vice President and present ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale's leaning toward balancing economics with strategic interests and use of conciliatory approach in trade negotiations; US focus on deals to open markets sector by sector.

Reports on trade negotiations between Japan and the United States. President Bill Clinton's desire for a Japanese concession; Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's call concerning an economic package; Contents of the package; Response of the United States to the package; Macroeconomic proposals.

Reports on political strongman Ichiro Ozawa's proposal to accept targets to reduce Japan's current-account surplus with the United States. Opposition of Japan's bureaucrats and executives to Ozawa's proposal; Other measures being prepared by the Japanese government to mollify Washington.

Proposes a way for shrinking the United States' trade deficit with Japan. Focus on distribution networks to force Japan's United States subsidiaries to open its markets to American goods; Advantages of the author's proposal; Imposition of sanctions on Japan.

Focuses on the soft line approach assumed by the United States in trade negotiations with Japan. United States officials' request for increased American car sales by Japanese automobile makers; Convergence between the two economies; Basis of America's soft approach; Disadvantages of joint ventures between American companies and Japanese cartels. INSET: Sore spots..

Reports on the political changes in Japan. Formation of first non-Liberal Democratic Party government in 38 years led by Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa; Political effects of Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) ouster from power; Alleged weakness of Hosokawa's coalition; Differences between Hosokawa and Ichiro Ozawa, the renegade who caused the downfall of the LDP; Possible implications on United States-Japan relations.

This article looks at the actions of U.S. President Bill Clinton toward Japan's intransigent trade policies. When Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa visited the White House in April 1993, Clinton put economic issues front and center, ahead of traditional national security concerns. Rather than just exhorting Japan to open its markets, Clinton laid out a menu of trade measures aimed at reducing a widening $50 billion deficit. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor is mulling punitive tariffs on Japanese imports if Tokyo's $117 billion stimulus package does not result in purchases of U.S. supercomputers. Reflecting their penchant for targeting specific industries, officials are also planning an assault on Japan's insurance market, hoping to get U.S. insurers a guaranteed slice. U.S. autoparts makers are working to hold the Japanese to their promise to purchase $19 billion in U.S. parts by March 1994. And the U.S. semiconductor industry is banking on Kantor's insistence on an average 20% share of Japan's chip market for all of 1993.

Discusses how amid severe government controls and tight `keiretsu' ties that have kept most of the insurance business in the hands of a few firms, foreigners have captured less than three percent of Japan's $390 billion-a-year insurance market. However, with the Finance Ministry now studying deregulation of the insurance industry, foreigners are going on the offensive. Time for action.

Discusses how President Bill Clinton is starting to show signs that he may veer sharply away from the largely free-trade approach of his Republican predecessors especially when it comes to Japan. Behind-the-scenes maneuvering among administration officials and lawmakers also suggests that a complete rethinking of United States-Japan relations could be in the offing. Details of the different trade teams assembled.

Presents information on U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Paul E. Tsongas. Comment on how his party needs to drop their business-bashing and class warfare; View of Tsongas on how the U.S. takes on economic superpowers Germany and Japan; Report that he wants the government to deal with a shortage of venture capital by stepping in and investing in promising technologies; Opinion of Republican strategist Kevin Phillips calls Tsongas, the last of the Atari Democrats, referring to a late 1970s breed who wanted more government-industry cooperation to meet global competition, particularly in high-tech industries.