March 12, 1998
Contact: Timothy McKernan
(619) 594-2588
Expert on Asian Economics to Speak at SDSU
Hisashi Hosokawa, former administrative vice minister of Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), will offer insight into “The Current Asian Economic Crisis” in a speech sponsored by the Japan Studies Institute of San Diego State University. Hosokawa will speak at 3 p.m., March 18, in SS-1500 of Student Services Building East on the SDSU campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Over the course of his 28-year career at MITI, Hosokawa was involved in many significant international economic developments. He was a key participant in forming industrial policy between Japan and the United States and in the decision to add China to the World Trade Organization. His experience includes a stint as the Secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and he was one of the original architects of the Asian-Pacific Economic Council. Hosokawa is a graduate of the University of Kyoto and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
To learn more about Hosokawa’s speech on this topic of international importance, please call Milton Chen at the Japan Studies Institute of SDSU at (619) 594-2474 or Timothy McKernan at (619) 594-2588.