Dear all,

We are excited to invite you to our weekly Zoominar! This week, we will have a conversation with Patricia Maclachlan, Japan political scientist at UT Austin, on how consumers, postal employees, farmers and small businesses have fared in Japan's rapidly changing political economy. It will be held at the following time:

Japan's Policies for the Common Man
Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 4:30pm-5:30pm Pacific (PST)
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 9:30am-10:30am Japan Time (JST)

Please register here: http://bit.ly/3t9pIF1

Patricia L. Maclachlan is Professor of Government and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of "Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism" (Columbia UP 2002) and "The People's Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010" (Harvard University East Asia Center 2011). Her most recent book, on the reform of Japanese agriculture and agricultural cooperatives (with Kay Shimizu), is forthcoming from Cornell UP in 2021.

Moderator
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at GPS, UC San Diego, and the Director of JFIT. Her research focuses on Japan's changing corporate strategies, including business culture, change management, and business organization. Her 2020 book "The Business Reinvention of Japan" analyzes how Japanese companies are responding to the rise of China and the changing global competition.

We hope to see you there!

Coming up the following Tuesday:
2/23 (2/24 JST) In memoriam: Ezra Vogel's "Japan as No. 1" and its Impact on U.S.-Japan Business and Research, with Richard Dyck and Robert A. Feldman
Please register here for this upcoming zoominar: http://bit.ly/3a2lExA

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Warm Regards,
The Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology, GPS, UC San Diego