Robert Cole of U.C. Berkeley on the Japanese Software Industry
What went wrong and what can we learn from it? At a Japan Society program on February 15 at the San Francisco offices of Morrison Foerster, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus…
Ashes to Gold: How the 1964 Olympics Transformed Japan and Lessons for 2020
News icon Dan Rather headlined an all-star panel on December 8 at the de Young Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco to talk about the remarkable story of the…
A Look at Women in the Workforce in Japan and the U.S.
By Melissa La Bouff Asia Society of Northern California, the Consulate-General of Japan in SanFrancisco, and Japan Society of Northern California presented a panel on workplace gender equality in Japan…
Big in Japan: Levent Arabaci on Implementing Culture Change at a Large Japanese Company
Levent Arabaci, Hitachi’s global EVP for HR, gave a highly informative talk on the transformation of Japanese business icon Hitachi and the radical restructuring of the HR system needed to…
Creating the Next Biomedical Powerhouse in Japan with Nobel Prize Winner Shinya Yamanaka
The Japan Society and US-Asia Technology Management Center of Stanford proudly hosted Nobel prize winner Shinya Yamanaka and an expert panel on October 12 for a lively discussion of trends…
Filling Asia’s Infrastructure Gap: Financing the Region’s Growth
Larry Greenwood (lgreenwood@usajapan.org) is president of the Japan Society of Northern California, senior advisor at Bower Group Asia and non-resident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.…