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In 1981, the U-M Center for Japanese Studies launched the U.S.-Japan Automotive Conference (USJAC). Held annually until 1989, the USJAC facilitated reasoned dialogue between U.S. and Japanese business, political, and labor leaders against a backdrop of increasingly heated competition between the two countries’ auto industries.
In this episode, we bring you the opening panel of the 1983 U.S.-Japan Auto Conference, featuring Paul W. McCracken (University of Michigan), Keichi Oshima (University of Tokyo), and Robert Perkins (Chrysler).
Complement this episode with the printed proceedings of the 1983 conference: Automobiles and the Future: Competition, Cooperation, and Change.