Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Women in Japanese Science, Business, and Politics" with Dr. Yuko Harayama, moderated by Ulrike Schaede
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 9:30am-10:30am JST / Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 4:30pm-5:30pm Pacific

In Japan, professional women are notoriously underrepresented in STEM and university positions, and even more so in senior business positions and politics. Dr. Yuko Harayama, former member of the Cabinet Office Council for Science, Technology and Innovation and one of the leading women in Japanese science and technology, speaks on the challenges and opportunities for women in today's Japan, why politics seems so impenetrable, and how business can change toward more diversity and inclusion.

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Dr. Yuko Harayama is an Executive Director charged with international affairs at RIKEN. Prior to RIKEN, she served as an executive member of the Japanese Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, as the Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation at the OECD, and as a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering of Tohoku University. She holds a Ph.D. in education sciences and a Ph.D. in economics, both from the University of Geneva.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at GPS, UC San Diego, and the Director of JFIT. Her 2020 book "The Business Reinvention of Japan" analyzes how Japanese companies are responding to the rise of China and the changing global competition, and recently won two prestigious awards: the 2020 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and a silver medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards 2021, "Economics" category.

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