This book analyzes European-Japanese relations in the context of Europe's economic unity and Japan's increasing market domination. Differing historical development has brought these two players to the same stage, and that difference is the cause of friction, misperception, and miscalculation. Nester here gives parallel overviews of this historical development as background for the study of the current processes, ends, successes, and failures of European and Japanese industrial, trade, and foreign policies. Equally important, he examines the present situation for signs of the future evolution of this contentious relationship.