Excerpt from United States-Japan Framework Talks on Trade: Hearings Before the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 24 and March 23, 1994 Incidentally, sometimes it is hard for outsider Japanese to pene trate the market, but it is certainly hard for foreigners. That, in a sense, is the crux of the problem. It is a pervasive pattern. It does link corporate practices and government intervention. That makes it more difficult to penetrate than the usual trade barriers that on find in other countries, where you can identify a quota or a high tariff. It has been likened to an onion in the case of Japan: If you peel off one protective measure, you find two or three others. You may have thought you liberalized and opened the market, but in fact, there was much more to it, and you did not get to the heart of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.