Professor of East Asian Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, anchor@uw.edu
Marie Anchordoguy is Professor of East Asian Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She specializes in the political economy of Japan. Her most recent book is Reprogramming Japan: The High Tech Crisis Under Communitarian Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2005), which will come out in Japanese translation in 2011. She is also author of Computers, Inc.: Japan's Challenge to IBM (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1989) and many other monographs on industrial targeting and the techniques and institutions of Japan's capitalist system. These include "Japanese-American Trade Conflict and Supercomputers," Political Science Quarterly, vol. 109, no.1, spring 1994; "Japan at a Technological Crossroads: Does Change Support Convergence?", Journal of Japanese Studies (summer 1997); "Japan's Software Industry, A Failure of Institutions?" Research Policy, vol.29, no.3, 2000; "Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company (NTT) and the Building of a Telecommunications Industry in Japan," Business History Review, vol.75, autumn 2001; "U.S.-Japan Relations and Japan's Industrial Policy toward its Electronics Sector" in Japan and the U.S. Reconsidered: Evolution of Security and Economic Choices since 1960 (Economic Strategy Institute, 2002); "Japan's Developmental State in the 1990s and Beyond: Has Industrial Policy Outlived its Usefulness?" in David Arase, ed. The Challenge of Change, East Asia in the New Millenium (Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, 2003); "Japan's Technology Policies and their Limitations," in Saadia Pekkanen and Kellee Tsai, eds., Japan and China in the World Political Economy (Routledge, 2005); and "Alfred Chandler and Business History in Japan," in Business History Review, vol.82, summer 2008.
She is currently doing research on Japan-China economic relations. She has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Harvard University, the Japan Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission. During 1991 and 1992 she was appointed a Japanese Ministry of Education Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi University's Center for Innovation Research and was a visiting scholar there in 1999 while on an Abe Fellowship from the Center for Global Partnership. She chaired the Japan Studies Program from 2000 to 2007. In 2004 she became coeditor of The Journal of Japanese Studies. She received her undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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