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Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Japanese Business and Politics in the Shadow of Trump's Tariffs" with Gearoid Reidy
From: Takashi Kiyoizumi (JFIT) <tkiyoizumi@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2025/05/11
Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Japanese Business and Politics in the Shadow of Trump's Tariffs" with Gearoid Reidy
Wed, May 21, 2025, 8:00-9:00 am JST (Tue, May 20, 2025 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)
As America flip-flops on trade policies, security deals and its own domestic policies, the world of Japanese business and politics is being whiplashed as the country's most crucial ally turns inward.
How are Japan's firms responding by adjusting their export strategies and global production networks? What are the flashpoints between the U.S. and Japan, and what can Tokyo do to accommodate President Trump's demands? What do the current tensions mean for the U.S.-Japan security alliance and Japanese public opinion of America? And what does the uncertainty mean for the Japanese economy and the Bank of Japan's path for policy normalization?
Gearoid Reidy, a columnist with Bloomberg Opinion in Tokyo, will discuss these and other topics to update us on the current state of Japanese business, broadly defined.
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Gearoid Reidy is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering Japan and the Koreas. A two-decade resident of Japan, he previously led Bloomberg's breaking news team in North Asia and was the deputy bureau chief for its Tokyo bureau.
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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