Professor

Department of Social and International Relations

University of Tokyo, Komaba
3-8-1 Komaba
Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153

TEL: (03) 5454-6458
FAX: (03) 5454-4339
E-MAIL: keiichi@waka.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese, Spanish

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  government-business relations; international direct investment; multinational corporations
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  comparative politics; political economy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor, Department of Social & International Relations, Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Tokyo, 1981-present.

IN US: 1987-88, 1993-94 - visiting scholar; 1975-79 - Fulbright; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"NAFTA's Impact on Japan," (Woodrow Wilson Center, 1994); "Japanese Investment in Liberalizing Latin American Economies: Current Pattern and Possible Impacts of the FTA Initiatives," (University of Tokyo, 1992); "Dependency and Labor Policy: The Case of the Mexican Automotive Industry" (Cornell University, 1989); "Corporatism without Labor? The Japanese Anomaly," (with Pempel) Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation ( ed. Shimitter et al.) (Sage, 1979).