Dear SSJ-Forum Members:

Allow me to make a plug for a series of workshops our Center and the Japan
Policy Research Institute are sponsoring this Fall.

Regards,

Michael Jensen
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JAPANESE MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY -- POLICIES AND PRACTICES: A Workshop Series

The University of New Mexico/US - Japan Center and the Japan Policy Research
Institute announce a series of workshops designed to increase knowledge of
American and Japanese approaches to, and national doctrines concerning,
industrial policy. Ongoing trade disputes between the US and Japan - and the
tremendous amount of contradictory and sometimes uninformed comment attending
the negotiations - underscore the need for an improved understanding of Japan's
system of industrial policy. Failure to comprehend the theoretical basis and
real workings of this system (and its offshoots in other Asian countries) will
have profound and long-term consequences as the US reassesses its terms of
engagement in the Pacific Rim, copes with an endemic deficit in merchandise
trade, and struggles with the process of defining national security objectives
in economic terms.

The series will consist of three two-day workshops held between September and
December 1995. The workshop series will give business people, government
officials, journalists, scholars, and others interested in Japan and industrial
policy an opportunity to discuss and exchange views on contending U.S. and
Japanese industrial policy practices and ideologies. A set of background
readings will be provided ahead of time for each workshop, and participants will
be expected to do some preparatory work.

Participants can attend any individual session, but priority will be given to
those who commit to attending all three meetings. Members of JPRI can attend the
series free of charge. Participants are encouraged to register early in order to
guarantee space at the workshops and obtain the special conference hotel rate.
The workshops are subsidized and supported by the U.S.-Japan Center, under a
grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the Japan Industry and
Technology Management Training Program. Further workshop information will be
provided upon registration.

WORKSHOP 1
Japanese Industrial Policy: Praxis and Polemics September 15-16
San Diego, California

Also cooperating in the Workshop 1 are the University of San Diego Ahlers Center
for International Business and the Japan America Society of Southern California

Topics:
Comparison of U.S. and Japanese national doctrines on industrial policy.
Definition of industrial policy in the context of the developmental state.
Mechanisms of Japanese government industrial policy.

Speakers:
-- Marie Anchordoguy - Associate Professor of Political Science at the Henry M.
Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington,
Seattle. Author of Computers Inc. Japan's Challenge to IBM. -- David Arase -
Associate Professor of Political Science at Pomona College and author of Buying
Power: The Political Economy of Japan's Foreign Aid. -- Steven C. Clemons -
Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute and Senior Policy Adviser for
International Affairs and Economic Security in the Office of Senator Jeff
Bingaman.
-- Eamonn Fingleton - Financial journalist who has lived in Japan since 1985 and
has been Asia editor for Euromoney Magazine, Forbes, and the Financial Times.
Author of critically acclaimed and controversial, Blindside: Why Japan is Still
on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the Year 2000.
-- Leslie Helm - Seattle correspondent and former Tokyo Correspondent for the
Los Angeles Times.
-- Chalmers Johnson - President of the Japan Policy Research Institute and
author of numerous books on Japan including, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, and
his latest book, Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State.
-- Andrew MacIntyre - Professor of Indonesian Politics at the University of
California at San Diego and author of Government and Business in Indonesia

WORKSHOP 2
Government-Industry Partnerships: How it Works in Japan October 13-14, 1995
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Topics:
WS 2 analyzes in detail the evolution of the complex and entrenched set of
public-private organizations and mechanisms that bind government and industry in
Japan; how this relationship worked to create the first "Asian miracle" economy;
and the impact on this system of such things as the rapid yen appreciation, the
hollowing of the economy, the shifting political scene, and the calls for reform
from both inside and outside Japan.

Speakers:
-- Alice Amsden - Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Political Economy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Asia's Next Giant: South
Korea and Late Industrialization.
-- Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M)
-- Steven C. Clemons
-- Thomas Huber (invited) - Professor of Asian History at the U.S. Army Command
and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and author of Stategic
Economy in Japan .
-- Chalmers Johnson
-- Dr. E. Barry Keehn - Executive Director, Japan Society of Southern California
Mark Tilton (Purdue, and author of RESTRAINED TRADE: CARTELS IN JAPAN'S BASIC
MATERIALS INDUSTRIES, Cornell U/P, Jan. 1996) -- Dr. Robert Orr (invited),
director of Government Relations for Nippon Motorola and an authority on Japan's
foreign aid.

WORKSHOP 3
The Keiretsu Equation: Japanese Corporate Organization December 8-9, 1995
Washington, DC

Topics: Many people in the US have heard and use the term keiretsu, but a full
understanding of this unique corporate system eludes many analysts. Through case
studies, WS 3 provides a thorough discussion of the roots of the keiretsu in
19th century Meiji reforms; their modern incarnation during the US Occupation;
the way they allow the private sector to organize itself to optimize industrial
policy objectives; and their likely future role in Japan's industrial policy.

Speakers (invited):
Clyde Prestowitz, Hedrick Smith, James Fallows, Pat Choate, Senator Jeff
Bingaman, Steven Clemons, and Chalmers Johnson.

REGISTRATION FORM/ REQUEST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Workshop Fee (excluding
airfare and hotel accommodation): $150 for the 3-part workshop series, $70 for
individual workshop; JPRI members no charge. Please make checks payable to the
US-Japan Center.

I don't want to register at this time but please send me additional information
on the Workshop Series:

Please register me now for the Workshop Series: Please register me for Workshop
1:

Name:
Organization:
Mailing Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:

ACCOMODATIONS
Hotel suites have been reserved for Workshop 1 participants at the Best Western
Hacienda Hotel in Old Town San Diego. In order to obtain special conference
daily rates of $79 for a single and $89 for a double, reservations must be made
as soon as possible by calling 1-800-888-1991. Mention that you are with the
Japanese Technology Workshop.

Hotel rooms for Workshop 2 have been held at the Albuquerque Hyatt Regency.
The workshop coincides with the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta -- the
largest hot air ballon event in the world (with nearly 1000 participating ballon
teams) and definitely an awesome spectacle -- and hotel rooms are at a premium;
the rate is $135 single/double. The hotel number is 1-800-233-1234 and
participants should mention they are with JPRI or the US-Japan Center.

Individuals interested in registration or in receiving more information about
this workshop series may contact:

Ms. Kate Ternes University of New Mexico/US-Japan Center Tel: (505) 277-1490
Fax: (505) 277-1425
E-mail: kternes[atx]jpri.unm.edu