Fellows

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy. She is the Director of JFIT (Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology) where she organizes a weekly “Japan Zoominar” on current issues on Japan. Schaede works on Japan’s changing corporate strategies, including business culture, change management, employment practices, the rise of private equity, corporate governance, and manufacturing and innovation under the digital transformation. She has written extensively on Japanese business organization, and is the author of The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan (Stanford University Press, 2020) …

Shin Watanabe is a professor of sociology at Sophia University in Japan, specializing in economic sociology. He has been conducting research on job-matching process in Japan and the US, as well as studying the process of career formation among female leaders in Japanese business. 

Yoshihide Soeya is professor of political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University.  His areas of interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external relations in the region.  He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics.