Japan Outlook 2022
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Japan Outlook 2022
January 24, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Will 2022 be a year of economic resurgence in Japan or will factors such as COVID restrictions, continued supply chain disruptions, and inflation act as headwinds to growth? Will the new Kishida Administration, which faces an election in the summer, succeed in keeping the pandemic under control while keeping the economy running and opening its borders? What will Japan, together with the US and other allies, do to balance rising Chinese power and influence? How will they support prosperity and peace in Asia?
Please join us at the Japan Society of Northern California’s annual Japan Outlook program on January 24, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Pacific Time (January 25, 9:00-10:30 a.m. Japan Time) to hear experts discuss these and other questions related to the political, economic and security outlook for Japan in the coming year and what this all means to America.
Robert Feldman is currently a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, where he has worked since 1998. In addition, he is a Professor in the Management of Technology program, at Tokyo University of Science, and is a member of the Policy Committee at the Asia Society Japan. TJ Pempel, Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, is a prolific author and one of America’s top scholars on Japan and Asia. The conversation will be moderated by Japan Society of Northern California Chair Larry Greenwood.
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Date and Time:
Monday, January 24th, 2022 at 4:00-5:30 P.M. (PDT)
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 at 9:00-10:30 A.M. (Japan Time)
Price:
FREE!
*via Zoom
OUR AMAZING SPEAKERS
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Robert Alan Feldman | Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd
Robert is currently a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, where he has worked since 1998. In addition, he is a Professor in the Management of Technology program, at Tokyo University of Science, and is a member of the Policy Committee at the Asia Society Japan. Outside formal work, he was a commentator on Japan’s nightly business program, World Business Satellite, from 2000-2020, and served on the US-Japan Friendship Commission and as an outside director at Orix Corporation. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and BAs in Economics and in Japanese Studies from Yale. He was an exchange student in Japan in high school. He has published nine books in Japanese, and one in English, and has translated three books from Japanese to English.
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TJ Pempel | Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Dr. T. J. Pempel is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley where he has been on the faculty since 2001. From then until 2006, T.J. was director of Berkeley’s Institute of East Asian Studies. Previously, T.J. held positions at Cornell University, the University of Colorado, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Washington. From 2008 to 2020 he served as a presidentially-appointed commissioner on the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission. T.J.’s expertise is in comparative politics, Japanese political economy, American foreign policy and Asian regional issues. The author or editor of 24 books and over 120 articles, his latest book is A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific.
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Moderator, Larry Greenwood | Board Chair, Japan Society of Northern California
