companies so much wealth and power via the entry of foreign goods would be disruptive to this system of loyalty. This is one reason it is so difficult for a foreigner to enter the Japanese market. There are higher forces at work too though. Their strategy includes business license paperwork (belonging to American entrepreneurs) getting misfiled or lost without explanation causing legal hardship. Also, goods will be delayed unloading off their ships because of “too busy customs officials” or “lost somewhere on the pier for 6 weeks” making them miss deliveries and angry customers. The consequences of the above tactics are seen in the US and Japan today. Hoover and GE make very few sales in Japan while Sanyo; Toshiba and all others sell many vacuums and appliances here in America. Ultimately, this weakens US firms like Hoover and GE and may one day cause them to leave these industries entirely.A US lamp manufacturing company encountered exactly this problem. It took them 9 months to get lamps off the ship sitting in the harbor and into retail stores in Japan after customs, and other government agencies stalled and stalled, which cost this company lots of money (Morrow 19). Making foreign goods (i.e. food, or apparel) which compete against domestic Japanese products wait on ships long enough to rot or not be desirable to the consumer is another practice.Many anti-foreign goods laws are often written in the form of "protection" to the consumer. These are applied discretionary and are really written to prevent or make it expensive, slow, or impossible for foreign goods to enter the Japanese market (Morrow 19). For example, one well-known Japanese tactic is the intentional use of too few "inspectors" who are responsible for "inspecting" every single one of an importer's products entering Japan (i.e. bicycles or cars). As every item must be individually "inspected" very carefully, this takes very long to do. This i...
