Author: Bradly Hammond

A conversation with Robert Cole, Mike Flynn, and John Campbell on the CJS-led U.S.-Japan Automotive Study and the 1981-1989 U.S.-Japan Auto Conferences.

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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.

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Continuing our commemoration of CJS’s 70th anniversary, we’re sharing a special minisode about Japanese Studies at Michigan before the founding of CJS in 1947. This lecture was delivered at CJS’s 50th anniversary symposium in 1997 by Gary Saxonhouse, a Professor of Economics at U-M.

To learn more about CJS’s history, see the history page on our website.

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2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the U-M Center for Japanese Studies. Throughout the year, the Japanese Studies Radio Hour will share special recordings from the CJS archives, starting with this special address by Beate Sirota Gordon, given on the occasion of CJS’s 50th anniversary in 1997.

Complement this recording with Sirota Gordon’s The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts.