Clyde Prestowitz: Japan Restored

[Temple ICAS evening Lecture]
Clyde Prestowitz: Japan Restored

Date:Friday, June 3, 2016
Time:7:30 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Venue:Temple University Japan Campus, Mita Hall 5F
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:Clyde Prestowitz, founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute
Moderator:Robert Dujarric, Director of ICAS
Admission:Free. Open to public
Language:English
RSVP:icas@tuj.temple.edu
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Overview

Clyde Prestowitz’s latest book Japan Restored: How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World (Tuttle Publishing, 2015) offers a an alternative path for Japan.  Rather than disappear in a demographic abyss made worse by technological decline, Japan, as happened under Meiji, re-invents itself to become, once again, one of the planet’s leading nations.

Clyde will give us an overview of the ideas underpinning Japan Restored and we will have a discussion with the audience.

Speaker

Clyde Prestowitz is founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. His leadership has propelled ESI into an important role in the public policy process, influencing and often defining the terms of the debate in the areas of international trade policy, economic competitiveness, and the effects of globalization. Mr. Prestowitz has played key roles in achieving congressional passage of NAFTA and in shaping the final content of the Uruguay Round, as well as providing the intellectual basis for current U.S. trade policies toward Japan, China, and Korea.

Prior to founding ESI, Mr. Prestowitz served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. There, he led many U.S. trade and investment negotiations with Japan, China, Latin America, and Europe. Before joining the Commerce Department, he was a senior businessman in the United States, Europe, Japan, and throughout Asia and Latin America. He has served as vice chairman of the President's Committee on Trade and Investment in the Pacific and sits on the Intel Policy Advisory Board and the U.S. Export-Import Bank Advisory Board.

Clyde Prestowitz regularly writes for leading publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fortune, and Foreign Affairs. He is the author of the best-selling book on U.S.-Japan relations, Trading Places, and co-author and editor of several other books on international trade and business strategy including Asia After the Miracle; Powernomics; Bit by Bit; The New North American Trade Order; Rogue Nation; and Three Billion New Capitalists, and The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era.

Mr. Prestowitz has a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College; an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii; and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He also studied at Keio University in Tokyo. He is fluent in Japanese, Dutch, German, and French. (for more info visit http://www.econstrat.org/about-us/staff-bios/20-clyde-v-prestowitz-jr-president)