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Meeting No: 2514 413 3491
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Abstract

The growth experiences of Japan from 1970 to 2000 is a period marked by rapid industrial expansion, technological advancement, and significant economic transformation. During the 1970s and 1980s, Japan emerged as one of the world’s leading economies through strong manufacturing, export-oriented policies, and innovation in industries such as automobiles and electronics. However, the burst of the economic bubble in the early 1990s led to prolonged economic stagnation. In this webinar the speaker will examine the major policies, structural changes, and global influences that shaped Japan’s economic trajectory, offering insights into lessons for sustainable growth and economic resilience.

About the Speakers

Kazuto Suzuki

Kazuto Suzuki is Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Director of the Institute of Geoeconomics at International House of Japan. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England. He has worked in the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, France as assistant researcher and the Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008 and served as Professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. He served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for Iranian Sanction Committee under the United Nations Security Council from 2013 to July 2015. He currently serves many advisory committees of the government of Japan, inter alia, the National Space Policy Committee of the Cabinet Office, the Government of Japan, and the President of Japan Association of International Security and Trade. He is also a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and a Visiting Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs. His research focuses on the conjunction of science/technology and international relations; subjects including the conjunction of science/technology and international relations; subjects including economic Security, space policy, sanctions, non-proliferation, and export control. His recent work includes Space and International Politics (2011), in Japanese, awarded Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities), Policy Logics and Institutions of European Space Collaboration (2003), A Global Map of Resources and the Economy, in Japanese, (2024); as editing work includes The Regulatory Power of the EU in Japanese (2012), Economic security and technological advantage (2023) in Japanese, and many others.