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The Future of the Japanese Economy: Is the Sun Rising Again?

Name: The Future of the Japanese Economy: Is the Sun Rising Again?
Start: 2025-03-05T16:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-03-05T18:00:00-08:00
Location: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

Mar 05 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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The Future of the Japanese Economy: Is the Sun Rising Again?

Morrison & Foerster, LLP

425 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105 United States
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The end of deflation after a 15-year battle, accelerated corporate governance reforms, massive investment in digital and climate transformation, and the rise of start-ups have caused investors in the U.S. and globally, who largely wrote off Japan as stuck in a decades-long decline, to look at Japan in a new and more positive light. Yet many in Japan and outside worry that the pace of change will not keep up with Japan’s inexorable demographic shift as it ages and shrinks.

Please join us on March 5, 2025 for a program to explore the future of Japan’s economy and the possibility for a new renaissance. We are proud to feature former Bank of Japan President Haruhiko Kuroda who will be joining us through Zoom from Japan as our keynote speaker and a panel of experts, including Richard Katz, author of the new book, The Contest for Japan’s Economic Future.

Event Details

Date & Time:
Wednesday, March 5th at 4:00 – 6:00 P.M. PT
(Doors open at 3:30 P.M.)

Venue:
Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco | 425 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105

A QR code to enter the building will be sent one day before the event.
Guests will need to check in at Morrison & Foerster’s downstairs lobby at 425 Market Street building, and must produce a valid ID.

Admission:
FREE!

Joining us Online?
The Zoom meeting information will be sent in a registration confirmation email.

This program is supported by a grant from the National Association of Japan-America Societies, Inc., with the support of the Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC.

Venue Generously Provided by

Our Amazing Speakers

Haruhiko Kuroda | Former Governor of the Bank of Japan & Professor and Senior Fellow of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies at Kyoto University; Advisor at Japan Center for Economic Research (Joining via Zoom)

Richard Katz | NYC Correspondent, Weekly Toyo Keizai

Richard Katz is the publisher of Japan Economy Watch on Substack and a Special Correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai.
His new book on Japan (2023), The Contest for Japan’s Economic Future: Entrepreneurs vs. Corporate Giants was listed by the Financial Times as one of the best economics books in 2024. His two previous books were Japan: The System That Soured–The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle (1998) and Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (2003). All were also published in Japanese

For 20 years, he published a monthly newsletter in Japan called The Oriental Economist Report.
His essays and op-eds have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The International Economy. He’s testified several times to Congressional committees.
He also taught about Japan’s economy as an adjunct lecturer at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and New York University.

Shihoko Goto | Director, Indo-Pacific Program, Wilson Center

Shihoko Goto is director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the Wilson Center. She specializes in trade and economic interests across the Indo-Pacific, and is also focused on geopolitical developments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She is also a columnist for The Diplomat magazine and contributing editor to The Globalist. She is currently an executive board member of the Japan-America Society of Washington DC, and a member of the Global Taiwan Institute’s US-Taiwan Task Force. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, she was a financial journalist covering the international political economy with a focus on Asian markets. As a correspondent for Dow Jones News Service and United Press International based in Tokyo and Washington, she has reported extensively on policies impacting the global financial system as well as international trade. She was also formerly a donor country relations officer at the World Bank. Previously, she was a member of the Mansfield Foundation’s US-Japan Network for the Future, and she has received the Freeman Foundation’s Jefferson journalism fellowship at the East-West Center as well as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s journalism fellowship for the Salzburg Global Seminar. She received an MA in international political theory from the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan, and a BA in Modern History, from Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK.

Larry Greenwood | Board Chair, Japan Society of Northern California & Senior Advisor, BowerGroupAsia

Larry Greenwood is a consultant advising on government relations and international economic policy, with expertise in trade, finance, development, and Asia. Larry was a career diplomat from 1976 to 2006 and served in a variety of positions in the State Department in Washington, D.C., and at U.S. embassies in Manila, Dakar, Tokyo, and Singapore. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he worked as vice president at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines, where he oversaw loan and grant operations in East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Island countries, and as Senior Managing Director for government relations in Asia for MetLife based in Tokyo. After moving to the Bay Area in 2015 he joined the BowerGroupAsia and served as President of the Japan Society of Northern California from 2016-2019.