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February 9, 2025

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Japan Re-Emerges": A Discussion of Ulrike Schaede's New Book with Brad Glosserman

From: Takashi Kiyoizumi (JFIT) <tkiyoizumi@ucsd.edu>  
Date: 2025/02/03

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Japan Re-Emerges": A Discussion of Ulrike Schaede's New Book with Brad Glosserman
 
Wed, Feb. 19, 2025 9:00-10:00 am JST (Tue, Feb. 18, 2025 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)
Ulrike Schaede's new book, "Japan Re-Emerges," presents an alternative narrative of Japanese business today -- not of a system in doom and gloom, but of a re-emerging technology leader in global value chains. To survive rising competition in Northeast Asia, Japan's frontrunner companies have moved upstream, away from commoditized or end products and into high value-added inputs and frontier materials. The resulting "Japan Inside" position is less visible yet more powerful. The pace of this transformation is slow, but slow is not stagnant. In choosing stability over fast reorganization, Japan may present a new set of tradeoffs that result in a better balance between economic growth and societal well-being.

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Brad Glosserman is deputy director of and visiting professor at the Center for Rule-making Strategies, Tama University, and senior adviser at Pacific Forum, in Honolulu, Hawaii. For 10 years, he was a member of The Japan Times editorial board, and he now writes a weekly column on geopolitics and technology. Glosserman is co-author, with Gil Rozman, of "Japan's Rise as a Regional and Global Power 2013-2023: A Momentous Decade" (Routledge, 2024), author of "Peak Japan: The End of Grand Ambitions" (Georgetown University Press, 2019) and co-author, with Scott Snyder, of The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash (Columbia University Press, 2015). His newest book, "Tech-gemony: Navigating the New National Security Economy" (with David Lee), examining the geopolitics of high-technology, will be published this year by Hurst.
 
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and the director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT). Her research focuses on Japanese business strategies and management; employment practices and corporate culture; financial markets; manufacturing; and innovation. Her 2020 book, "The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan" (Stanford University Press), won the 2021 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and has been translated into Japanese as 再興 THE KAISHA: 日本のビジ ネス・リインベンション (Nikkei, 2022). Her most recent book, シン日本の経営：悲観バイアスを排す ("Japan Re-emerges"), was published in March 2024 in Japanese. 
 
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