Likewise, it has resisted foreign investment and corporate assistance even as it has actively pursued corporate ownership in other countries. The overarching
impact, most especially in the decades following western occupation, would
be a rapidly modernizing economy in Japan, a flooding of the world market
with more affordable Japanese-manufactured automobiles and electronics and
a continued closed-door policy to western goods or companies.
In a certain regard, it is reasonable to argue that modernization
under these terms has been very successful. In just 50 years, Japan
emerged from its role as an agriculturally-based military culture to serve
as one of the core industrialized nations defining the path of
technological and retail modernity. However, there are also myriad
trespasses against trade balance which suggest that it is philosophically
out-of-step with a globalizing world community. This could place it in a
challenging...

It is herein that modernized and technologically-dependent societies are commonly invested in the
availability of unrestricted commercial lines for access to global service
operators.
This is only one example of how the globalizing atmosphere is likely
to cause Japan to fall more directly into step with the perspective held by
other globally trading nations that a proper balance between import and
export is both a show of good faith and a practice conducive to more
balanced modernization.

Works Cited

The Economist Newspaper. (2003). Japanese Spirit, Western Things. The
Economist.