Fifty years ago the US and allies forced Japans arm exactly because the US was not the one-stop-shop for everything and the US had trouble and a massive trade d

Fifty years ago the US and allies forced Japans arm exactly because the US was not the one-stop-shop for everything and the US had trouble and a massive trade deficit with japan which was experiencing the reverse. Forced technology transfers, bad monetary policy, quotas for US tech, cars, etc in their domestic market. Japan was forced to take it all as they had no comparable export market to switch to (the USSR and co were a nono, china and such poor), no independent army and foreign policy of their own and all in all no way to resist and was thus very susceptible to a tradewar.