anchor: The problem is that Kodak really had little evidence to show that it was being frozen out by the Japanese government . There was the retail-stores law, and Kodak produced evidence of state intervention to restrict imports, but it was evidence from the 1960s and 1970s.
positive: Kodak believed the Japanese government to be guilty of interfering with their business.
negative: The Japanese government created vast walls of industrial grade meat fridges, using the icy winds to literally freeze foreign competition.