From the Japan Forum for Innovation & Technology @ UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy

Shinzo Abe - The Iconoclast

OCT. 27, 2020
4:30-5:30 p.m. PDT

Register at: https://bit.ly/3mlnIpI

Now that the Abe administration is completed, it is time to assess the global impact
of this outstanding Japanese statesman. Meet Tobias Harris, author of the current
best-selling biography on Shinzo Abe, to discuss the larger meaning of the Abe Years.
What kind of person is Shinzo Abe, how did he come to power, and what explains his
remarkable "second take", after the unsuccessful first Abe administration? How could he so deftly manage the LDP power structures, as well as the bureaucracies? What is the impact of his foreign and security policy shift? Will his various policy direction changes stick, and - last but not the least - what will it take to fill his shoes?

Speakers:
Tobias Harris, Senior Vice President at Teneo Advising

Ulrike Schaede, Professor and Director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology at GPS UC San Diego