Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
MITI-administered Voluntary Export Restraint limiting Japanese passenger-car exports to the US, announced 1 May 1981 under threat of Congressional protectionist legislation. Initial ceiling 1.68M vehicles, raised to 1.85M (1984), 2.30M (1985-1994). Accelerated Japanese automaker transplant production in the US (Honda Ohio 1982, Nissan Tennessee 1983, Toyota-GM NUMMI 1984). Formally ended 1994 though MITI guidance continued implicit.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.