Ms. LeBard and Mr. Friedman discussed their book, The Coming War With Japan, which hypothesizes that increasing economic and political conflicts between the U.S. and Japan will lead to conflict, political or military, in the next two generations. As the U.S.-Soviet conflict dominated the global political scene during the previous two generations, the trade battles between the U.S. and Japan will expand into conflict that will dominate the next two. The authors discussed their work at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania where they teach, their experiences and research that went into the book, and related the book’s hypothesis to U.S. policy concerning Japan.