Japan ranks 10th among host countries for United States investment abroad. despite the great size and importance of the Japanese economy. Frequently this problem is characterized as one of different perceptions regarding the purpose and use of national boundaries. American attitudes. deeply influenced by the historic role of the immigrant and the countrys sense of economic invulnerability over many decades. have tended to favor open boundaries. over which people. services. and money could easily flow. Japanese attitudes. shaped by very different historical factors. have favored separateness and aloofness. Accordingly. when the Japanese economy required technology from the rest of the world. the Government was not eager to bring that technology in through direct investments by foreigners in the Japanese economy.
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Americans favor open boundaries due to the historic role of the immigrant and a sense of economic invulnerability.