In 1980, James Clavell’s blockbuster historical novel “Shogun” was turned into a TV miniseries, some 33% of American households with a television tuned in. In 1982, historian Henry D Smith estimated that one-fifth to one-half of students enrolled in university courses about Japan at that time had read the novel and became interested in Japan because of it. But by the 1970s and 1980s, the country had come to dominate global markets for consumer electronic, semiconductors and the auto