Analyzing European-Japanese relations in the context of the European Community"s growing unity and Japan"s ever more complex economy, Nester compares the processes, means, ends, successes, and failures of European and Japanese industrial trade and foreign policies. He examines the growing trade, investment, and policy disputes between Brussels and Tokyo, and the reasons for Europe"s persistent trade and investment deficit with Japan. Finally, Nester analyses the strengths and weaknesses of European unification and its effect an European competitiveness, and considers the community"s prospects into the twenty-first century.