Assessing Japan's role in telecommunications: Building on successes in devices and small systems, Japan's R&D turns to making the large systems in which the United States has excelled

Trade in telecommunication products between the United States and Japan, now out of balance by $1.8 billion, will probably tip even further in favor of Japan in the 1990s, according to a panel of US. experts in telecommunications working under the US. initiative known as the Japanese Technology Evaluation Program (JTECH).