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Article: 'We learned that them may be us'. (Japanese-American relations in Tennessee) (How Japan is Winning Dixie: The Tennessee Story)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 9, 1988
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Tennesseans still prefer barbeque and sippin' whisky to sushi and sake, but a wave of Japanese industrial investment is giving the Volunteer State a push up the economic ladder and a new view of the world
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