Crisis and Aftermath: The Prospects for Institutional Change in Japan
Monday, May 3, 199912:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Bechtel Conference Center
All-day conference on Japanese institutional reform sponsored by the Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University.
- Changes in the Political System
Speaker: Mr. Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Member of the Japanese House of Councilors and former Vice Minister of Finance, Tokyo
Commentator: Prof. Daniel Okimoto, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University - Changes in the Bureaucracy
Speaker: Mr. Ryozo Hayashi, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Information and Machin- ery Industry, Tokyo
Commentator: Prof. Hugh Patrick, Professor of International Business, Columbia Univer- sity, New York - Changes in Business
Speaker: Mr. Taizo Nishimuro, CEO & President of Toshiba, Tokyo
Commentators: Mr. James Abegglen, Chairman, Asia Advisory Services, Tokyo. Mr. Hiroaki Yoshihara, Senior Partner at KPMG, Mountain View, California - Panel Discussion on the Institutional Changes
Prof. Hugh Patrick, Professor of International Business, Columbia University
Prof. Tadao Kagono, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Kobe University
Prof. Harry Rowen, Director, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
Mr. Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Executive Adviser, The Tokyo Marine and Fire Insurance Co. and Former Vice Minister of MITI, Tokyo
Mr. Dan Sneider, National/Foreign Editor, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA