Papers from three sessions of the West Coast Forum on the Japanese Political Economy, sponsored by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, and held in San Francisco, Sept. 25, 1986, in cooperation with the Japan Society of Northern California, in Seattle, Dec. 5, 1986, in cooperation with the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington, and in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 1986, in cooperation with the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.