	u s japan not in  war yeutter says the united states and japan are not involved in a  war despite u s sanctions announced last week against japanese semiconductors u s  representative clayton yeutter said in my judgement we re not even close to a  war yeutter told a house agriculture committee hearing yeutter said if japan takes action to honor its agreement with the u s on semiconductor  then the retaliatory response will last a relatively short period yeutter said japan must stop dumping chips in third countries and buy more american computer chips reuter 
