This week: in 1988, a Japanese company bought a paper mill in Port Angeles, WA, in a story that basically nobody except one reporter from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer bothered to pay much attention to. But in fact, that story tells us a lot about US-Japan relations.
Sources
Iritani, Evelyn. An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship between the United States and Japan, Told in Four Stories from the Life of an American Town.
A retrospective on the Daishowa mill from the local paper.
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