Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone comments that America is collapsing because of the influence of Negroes and Hispanics. Japan begins massive purchase of American land and corporations. A Japanese-television decumentary on a Nationalist parade in Iowa describes Nationalists as the principal impediment to Japanese expansion in America. Japan moves to replace American manufacturing, especially automobiles and electronics, with its own. Japanese industrialists predict that Japan will succeed, this time, in conquering the world.
Japanese factories begin to open in America, particularly where American industry has shut down.
Japanese take hold in the movie, communications and advertising industries. Vast numbers of minorities become employees of Japanese in factories on American soil. Workers become increasingly serfs and peons to the Japanese. Negligence by Mexicans working in formerly American companies, taken over by Japanese, results in hundreds of Americans killed by defective tires. The people reject the ultimatum by voting 2-1 to retain the flag.