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The Colonel Comes to Japan
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The United States Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, eager to penetrate the Japanese market, joined conglomerate Mitsubishi in a fast food joint venture. The program details how Kentucky Fried Chicken worked through the maze of Japanese bureaucracy, tailored their products to Asian tastes and demographics and netted the chain a solid profit. Part of the World Affairs Series

Political and Economic Challenges for Southeast Asia and the United States - Donald Crone
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Donald Crone is Associate Professor of International Relations at James Madison College, Michigan State University. He is author of The Asian States: Coping with Dependence and Politics and Social Justice in Southeast Asia and has conducted field research in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. He is affiliated with the Asian Studies Center, the Center for the Advanced Study of International Development, the Office of Women in International Development, and the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Pacific Rim Nations in the 21st Century - Challenge for America

The Myths and Realities of U.S.-Asian Trade - Richard Bohr
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard Bohr is Executive Director of International Trade for the State of Minnesota and was director of the Midwest China Resource Center where he consulted with businesses working in Asia. he has a master's from the Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate in Asian History from the University of California, Davis. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Pacific Rim Nations in the 21st Century - Challenge for America

Film: We are Driven
3:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - The industrial might of Japan and Japanese management techniques have taken the United States by storm. This profile of Nissan Motors and their new anti-union auto plant in Tennessee includes a probing and penetrating look into the "dark side" of Japanese management techniques. Part of the World Affairs Series

The Traditional Family in Modern Japan: Is There a Future? - Jane Bachnik
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Jane Bachnik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina and author of The Japanese IE: An Organization of Self and Society. She received her master's in East Asian Regional Studies and her doctorate in anthropology from Harvard University. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Pacific Rim Nations in the 21st Century - Challenge for America

Northeast Asia in the Twenty-first Century: Political, Economic and Military Challenges - Bruce Cumings
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bruce Cumings is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a member of the Committee on Korean and East Asian Development. he recently had the rare opportunity to travel to North Korea to consult on a documentary. He has co-edited the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and currently co-edits The Journal of Korean Studies. His book The Origins of the Koran War won the John King Fairbank Book Award. he received his doctorate in political science and East Asian studies from Columbia University. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Pacific Rim Nations in the 21st Century - Challenge for America

Film: A Taxing Woman
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ryoko is a relentless and resourceful female tax collector who goes after the larger-than-life Gondo, owner of a string of adult hotels, in this exhilarating and complex comedy/drama of tax evasion and entrapment in money-obsessed modern Japan. This film was directed by Juzo Itami. Part of the World Affairs Series

Share the Excellence: Teachers of the Year - Richard Meier, Pat Roush and Ray Olson
7:00 PM – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Pornography and Civil Rights - Andrea Dworkin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Andrea Dworkin is an outspoken feminist philosopher, activist, and author who co-authored the Minneapolis and Indianapolis ordinances defining pornography as a civil rights violation against women. Her books include Intercourse, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Ice and Fire, and Right-Wing Women From the University Lectures Program archive.

Women of the Phillippines and the Third World: Breaking the Chains That Oppress Us - Raquel Snacho
8:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Raquel Sancho is the International Relations Representative of GABRIELA, the National Women's Coalition of Organizations in the Philippines and Frontier Intern at the Third World Resource Center. From the University Lectures Program archive.