Associate Professor

Jackson School of International Studies

University of Washington
Thomson Hall, Box 353-650
Seattle, WA 98195

TEL: (206) 543-4994
FAX: (206) 685-0668
HOME: (206) 282-0336
E-MAIL: anchor@u.washington.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  competitive strategy; computer industry; foreign direct investment in Japan; high tech industries; industry studies; international trade; trade, investment and promotion; US competitiveness
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  antitrust and competition policy; industrial policy; international economic policy; political economy; technology policy; trade policy
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  electronics technology; technology competition and cooperation

IN JAPAN: Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Autumn Quater, 1999; NSF-STA Research Fellow, National Institute of Space and Technology Policy, Japan's Science and Technology Agency, September 1992-July 1993; 1975-76, 1982-86, 1991, 1992-93 - employment, study, repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Japan's Software Industry: A Failure of Institutions?" Research Policy (vol. 29, No. 3, March 2000); "Grappling With Globalization: The Japanese Software Industry," Coping With Globalization (J. Hart, A. Prokash, eds. Routledge Press, 2000); "Japanese-American Trade Conflict and Supercomputers," The Political Science Quarterly (Spring, 1994); "A Challenge to Free Trade? Japanese Industrial Targeting in the Computer and Semiconductor Industries," Japan's Economic Structure: Should It Change? (ed. Yamamura) (The Society for Japanese Studies, Autumn 1990); "An Overview of Japanese Keiretsu and of Japanese Government Efforts to Nurture a Domestic Computer Industry," Harvard Business Review (July-August 1990); Computers Inc., Japan's Challenge to IBM (Harvard University Press, 1989).