3 July 2023 at 12:00: Chris Griswold: Japanese and US industrial policy
Brown Bag lunch (bring your own bento)

3 July 2023 at 12:00 at Temple University Japan in Room 311

 
      
Speaker

Chris Griswold is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow (Hitachi) at RIETI working on Japanese Industrial and Innovation Strategy in a Fragmented World: A 21st Century View.

We will have an off-the-record bring-your-bento lunch (brown bag lunch) discussion with him on 3 July 2023 at 12:00 at Temple University Japan in Room 311.

Moderator

Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan

Overview

Whether Japan's post-war industrial policy was responsible for Japan's astonishing economic miracle has been a matter of debate. By the 1990s, the prevailing wisdom had shifted to favor market liberalization. However, concerns regarding China; supply chain vulnerabilities, etc. raise the prospect of a new moment for Japanese industrial strategy.

Meanwhile, the United States is also in a period of reexamination of prevailing economic wisdom. This American interest in industrial strategy has arisen concurrently with, and is partly a response to, growing political discontent and desire for greater American economic self-sufficiency.  In the current moment, characterized by what has been called the global shift from "technoglobalism" to "technonationalism," how Japan and the United States each choose to address questions of industrial strategy has enormous consequences not only for themselves, but also for each other.

Access
Temple University Japan Room 311
1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
東京都世田谷区太子堂1-14-29
Metro:Sangenjaya Station/三軒茶屋駅. Exit South A/南口A.

Exact coordinates (input in Google Maps Search box)
35.642317133254295, 139.6738373586528

Maps/Directions:
https://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo (English)
https://www.tuj.ac.jp/jp/maps/tokyo(Japanese).

RSVP appreciated but not required. Questions: icas@tuj.temple.edu

Speaker Profile
Master of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary (2009).

Bachelor of Arts, Wheaton College (2006).

2021 - Present: Policy Director, American Compass

2020 - Present: Stephen M. Kellen Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations

2020 - 2021: Senior Advisor for Innovation and Industry, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

2020 - 2021: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio

2019 - 2020: Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

2015 - 2018: Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Representative Tom MacArthur

2014: Executive Director, Tom MacArthur for Congress

2013: Freelance Consultant

2010 - 2012: General Manager & Head of Stakeholders, Columba Leadership South Africa

 
      
Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University, Japan Campus
www.tuj.ac.jp/icas
Email: icas@tuj.temple.edu