*Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Changing Employment Norms and Women in Japan's Workplace," with Hilary J. Holbrow
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Wed, Apr 6, 8:00-9:00 am JST (Tue, Apr 5, 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)

Japanese firms are often said to be characterized by distinctive employment practices, including lifetime employment, age-based pay and promotions, long work hours, extensive after-hours drinking, and marginalization of women in the workplace. What is the on-the-ground reality of these practices in large Japanese firms today? What changes will global competition and a shrinking population bring? And what do these shifts and continuities in labor practices mean for women's and men's roles in the 21st-century workplace?

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*Hilary J. Holbrow* is Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society at Indiana University. A sociologist by training, her scholarship examines social and economic inequality, work and organizations, immigration, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity. She is an International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies in Tokyo, an Associate in Research at Harvard's Reischauer Institute, and a member of the US-Japan Network for the Future.

*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.

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