From the Publisher's Weekly (1991):
"As the U.S. converts its global military supremacy into economic leverage, America and a rearmed Japan will be set on a collision course;
the rivalry between them could well spill over into a "hot war," the authors maintain. Friedman, a political science professor at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, and freelance writer LeBard sometimes overstate their thesis, yet their scenario is plausible and is buttressed by an appraisal of the two nations' conflicting imperial ambitions from the 1890s to the present."
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-War-Japan-George-Friedman/dp/0312058365