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GRAPEVINE, Page 13CASHING IN ON BASHING
By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by Wendy Cole
How to earn big yen by exploiting the U.S.-Japan rivalry?
A Japanese software manufacturer hopes to do it with Japan
Bashing, a hot new computer game for all those obsessive nerds
who lie awake worrying about the trade imbalance. While a TV
newscaster intones actual news stories (e.g., the purchase of
U.S. film studios by Sony and Matsushita), Japanese cars and
computer chips are shown converging on a map of the U.S. Winged
dollars at the top of the screen fly back toward Japan. Who
wins? Flying hot dogs indicate an American victory; sushi
signals a Japanese triumph. Then there are cowboys who shoot at
samurai warriors. The brochure describes Japan Bashing with some
understatement as "a game of reality and tension."