Telecommunications Policy in Japan: Lessons for the U.S.
分析日本电信政策的历史与制定过程，指出其具备战略方向、公众共识和连贯框架，而美国缺乏这些，因此美国可从日本经验中学习。
The U.S. has a great deal to learn from Japanese telecommunications policy as well as from their policy-making and implementation process. The Japanese telecommunications policy regime, though hardly perfect, is well suited to a technologically dynamic, globally competitive industry. What Japanese policy has, and the U.S. sorely lacks, is a strategic sense of purpose and direction, a strong public consensus regarding that purpose, a coherent and consistent framework for achieving that purpose, and a consensual process for resolving conflicts and removing obstacles to that achievement. The article examines the history of the Japanese telecommunications industry and policy, and it describes the important lessons that the U.S. can learn from Japan9s experience.