Michael J. Smitka

Professor of Economics Telephone: 540-***-**** Williams School of Commerce Fax: 540-***-**** Washington and Lee University Email: abqj3i@r.postjobfree.com Lexington, Virginia 24450 USA http://www.wlu.edu/~smitkam/

On Leave Academic 2006-7

(return mid August 2007)

Visiting Researcher and Fulbright Fellow

Chiba University Faculty of Law & Economics

1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku Chiba 263-8522 Japan

cell 080-****-**** Education Ph.D. in Economics: Yale, 1989.

A.B. cum laude in East Asian Studies: Harvard, 1975.

Grants and Work Experiencecurrent Faculty, Washington and Lee University, 1986-present.

Fulbright Research Fellowship, Chiba University Faculty of Law and Economics, Chiba, Japan, 2006-7.

Member, ASIANetwork Fulbright-Hays Pearl River Delta Project, Guangdong China, Summer 2005.

Keizai Koho Center Knowledge Leaders Trip, Japan, December 2002.

Japan Foundation Short Term Research Grant, July 2002; Visiting Researcher, Gakushuin University Faculty of Economics, Tokyo.

Participant, NEH Economic History Seminar, Universit t M nchen, Munich, Summer 1997.

Visiting Professor, School of International Relations, International University of Japan, Niigata, Winter 1997.

W&L Glenn/Mellon Summer Research Grants, Summers 1993-1996, 2001.

Researcher, MIT International Motor Vehicle Program, 1992 -1994.

Visiting Prof. & Japan Foundation Fellow, Faculty of Law, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, 1991-92.

Monbusho Joint International Research Project, Kyushu Univ., April 1991-July 1992.

Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship, Hitotsubashi University, September 1983-January 85.

Intern, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Tokyo, Summer 1982.

Banker, International Finance Center (New York), Bank of Tokyo, 1978-80.

Select PublicationsBooks:

Author, Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive Industry, Columbia University Press, 1991.

Editor, Japanese Economic History, 1600-1960, 7 volumes, Garland Publishing, 1998.

Articles and Book Chapters

"Japan, Economy." The Far East and Australasia 2007. London: Routledge, 2007. substantially lengthened and updated "Japan, Economy." The Far East and Australasia 2006. London: Routledge, 2006.

"Japanese Macroeconomic Dilemmas: The Implications of Demographics for Growth and Stability," Working Paper No. 226, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia University, 2004.

"The End of Growth in Japan: Three Simple Models for Undergraduate Economists." ASIANetwork Exchange, 11:1 Fall 2003, 26-31.

"Japan: The Nation Without Nationalism,"Virginia Review of Asian Studies v. 5, 2003.

"The Asian Automotive Industry," Encyclopedia of Asia, Berkshire Publishing, 2002.

"Foreign Policy and the US Automotive Industry: By Virtue of Necessity?" Business and Economic History, 2nd series, v. 28:2, Winter 1999.

"Automobiles and U.S. Foreign Policy," in Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson, editors, Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1997.

"Contracting without Contracts: How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions," Chapter 4 in Sim Sitkin & Robert Bies, eds., The Legalistic Organization, Sage, 1994.

"Opinion: Are U.S. Auto Exports the Growth Industry of the 1990s?" Sloan Management Review, 35:1, Fall 1993.

"Economy, Japanese," leading entry for economy topics in revised edition, Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993.

(Decline of the Japanese Automotive Industry), (Toyo Keizai), January 11, 1993.

"Business-Business Relations: Auto Parts Sourcing in Japan," Japan's Economic Challenge. U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, December 1990.

"The Invisible Handshake: The Development of the Japanese Automotive Parts Industry," Business and Economic History, 2nd series, v. 19, 1990.

Recent Book Reviews: (the following is a select list)

Review of Hugh Patrick, Takatoshi Ito and David Weinstein, eds., Reviving Japan's Economy: Prospects and Prescriptions, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005 for Social Science Japan (forthcoming 2007).Review of Princes of the Yen by Richard Werner and Japan's Fiscal Crisis: The Ministry of Finance and the Politics of Public Spending, 1975-2000 by Maurice Wright for Journal of Japanese Stuies, 2005.

Review of Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins

of Prosperity and Stagnation by Bai Gao. Reviewed for

Journal of Japanese Studies, 2003.

Review of Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social

History Since 1900 by Kenneth D. Brown, H-Net Review,

November 1999.

Review of Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba

by W. Mark Fruin, Journal of Japanese Studies 25:2,

Summer 1999.

Review of Small Firms in the Japanese Economy

by D. H. Whittaker, American Journal of Sociology,

March 1999.

Review of Japan Works: Power And Paradox In Postwar Industrial

Relations by John Price, Journal of Japanese Studies,

25:1 (Winter 1999).

Review of Made in Japan by the Japan Council on Industrial

Productivity, Japan Quarterly, 45:4 (October-December

1998).

Review of Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and

Cannot Do by Leonard J. Schoppa. H-Japan Book Review,

June 1998.

Review of Friends or Rivals? The Insider's Account of U.S.-Japan

Relations by Michael H. Armacost. H-Japan Book Review,

1997.

Review of Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese High

Tech Industrial Policy, 1975-1993 by Scott Callon.

Journal of Asian Studies, 56:1, (February 1997).

Review of The Japanese Automobile Industry: A Business History

by Koichi Shimokawa. Journal of Japanese Studies,

22:2 (Summer 1996).

Review of World War II and the Transformation of Business Systems

edited by Jun Sakudo & Takao Shiba, Journal of Asian

Studies, 55:1, (February 1996).

Review of The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1850-1990: Continuity

and Discontinuity by Seiichiro Yonekura. Journal

of Asian Studies, 54:3 (August 1995).

Review of Reconcilable Differences?--United States-Japan Economic

Conflict by C. Fred Bergsten and Marcus Noland, Journal

of Economic Literature, 33:2 (June 1995).

Review of Strategic Capitalism: Private Business and Public Purpose

in Japanese Industrial Finance by Kent E. Calder, Business

History Review, 1995.

Review of Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese

Business by Michael Gerlach, Journal of Economic

Literature, 32:3 (September 1994).

Review of Japan: Facing Economic Maturity by Edward Lincoln,

Journal of Economic Literature, 27:1 (March), 1989.

Translations:

Ryutaro Komiya, Masahiro Okuno and Kotaro Suzumura (eds.), Industrial Policy of Japan, Academic Press, 1988 (Co-translator).

Recent Interviews:

Interviews in Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 for the Lexington News-Gazette, WVPT Blacksburg Public Radio (22 minutes), WTOP Wisconsin Public Radio (1 hour talk show), CQ Press, Oriental Economist Japan Report, Op/Ed Richmond Times-Dispatch (February 18, 2009), Roanoke Times and several others. (I lost count

Various interviews in Japan in 2006-7, including citations in the Financial Times and Associated Press.

"Deep Flaws Plague Ford, GM." The Oriental Economist, June (Part I) and July (Part II), 2006. (Structured Interview with Richard Katz, editor)

"Toyota Ignored Harrassment Charge Against Otaka, Attorney Says." Bloomberg news, May 4, 2006. (Interview with Alan Ohnsman, Bloomberg LA Bureau)

"Professor Says Gas Boycotts Do Not Work." WDBJ Channel 7 (Roanoke, VA), April 25, 2006. (Interview with Alex Lawson, archived at: http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?s=4772106).

Recent Papers and Conferences

2009Panel Presentation, "The Bubble and Its Aftermath," Virginia Social Science Association, Virginia State University, March 2009.

Presentation, "Area Studies and Economics," ASIANetwork, Lisle IL, March 2009.

2008 Presentation on auto industry risk issues, Premier Lease Group, Cincinnati OH, December 2008.

Presentation, Macro and Strategic Issues, Daikin North America Board of Advisors, New York City, December 2008.

Webinar, AutoFinanceNews.net, on auto industry restructuring and related issues.

Powerpoint presentation (in Japanese, with simultaneous translation into English), Technology Diffusion and Entering the US Residential HVAC Market, Daikin Corporation Board of Advisors, Tottori Japan, November 2008.

PACE Automotive Supplier of the Year site visit, Koito Corporation (LED headlights), Shizuoka, Japan. November 2008.

Virginia Governor's School, talk on Japan studies for summer high school Japanese language program, University of Richmond, July 2008.

Washington and Southeast Japan Seminar, George Washington University, Washington, DC. May 2008.

Japan Economic Seminar, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. April 2008. Invited discussant.

PACE Automotive Supplier of the Year judging, Dearborn Michigan, February 2008.

2007I have attended many seminars, and been a guest lecturer in several undergraduate classes that I have not listed. Midatlantic Conference, Association for Asian Studies, October 2007.

Fulbright Seminar, Tokyo, July 2007.

"Leadership and Followership: An Economist's Perspective on Japanese Higher Education" (in Japanese), Tamagawa Gakuen University, June 2007.

"Demographics versus Productivity or Can we teach old dogs new tricks?" Monthly Glocom / IUJ Seminar, Roppongi Tokyo, June 13, 2007.

"Brand Management: Colleges and Car Companies, An Economist's Perspective" (in Japanese), Kyoto Gakuen University, May 24, 2007.

"Changing Japan: The Roots of Japan's Consumer Revolution." Temple University (Japan Campus), Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies Seminar, April 19, 2007.

2006 Participant, workshops at Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo; Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan; International House of Japan; Temple University; Chiba University; Kyoto Gakuen University Fulbright Foundation of Japan; GLOCOM (International University of Japan). "Standing on the Shoulders of Keynes: An Economist's Educator's Perspective on Digital Resource Issues." National Institute of Informatics International Symposium on Institutional Repositories, Tokyo, December 18-19. (in Japanese; powerpoint pubished in proceedings)

Seminar, "Japan's Changing Generations: Consumption Patterns." Chiba University, October 2006. (in Japanese)

Japanese and US Library Digital Resource Working Session, University of Tokyo Library, September 2006. Made three separate presentations to representatives of Japanese newspaper database providers. (in Japanese)

Conference paper, "Management as Technology: Long-run Change in Management Patterns in Japan." The 13th Mitsubishi Bank Foundation International Management Conference, Zushi Japan, August 26-28, 2006. Also provided written comments as a discussant for 2 papers.

Panelist, ASIANetwork Conference, Lisle, IL, April 2006.

2005 Participant & Treasurer, Washington and Southeast Japan Seminar, Washington, DC, December 2005.

Participant, Social Science History Association, Portland, Oregon, November 2005.

Discussant, Japan Economic Seminar, Washington, DC, November 2005.

Participant, ASIANetwork Conference and Pearl River Delta project planning conference, Whittier College, CA, April 2005.

Participant, Japan Economic Seminar, George Washington University, April 2005.

Guest lecture, "Japan's Economic Future," East Asian Studies Program, University of Virginia, March 2005.

Participant, Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies, University of Virginia, February 2005.

2004 Paper, Tokugawa Japan as a Modern Economy, Social Science History Conference, Chicago, November 2004.

Participant, Japan Economic Seminar, George Washington University, November 2004.

Paper, Japanese Macroeconomic Dilemmas, Washington and Southeast Japan Seminar, November 2004.

Presentation, North Korea Symposium, James Madison University, November 2004.

Participant, INR / US Department of State Conference on Japan s Fiscal Volcano, September 2004.

Paper, "Japanese Macroeconomic Dilemmas," Japan Economic Seminar, George Washington University, April 2004.

Paper, "How to Study Economics: Lessons from Thomas Kuhn & the Philosophy of Science" and Discussion Panel on Student Research, Virginia Social Science Association, April 2004,

Program chair, Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies, February 2004.

2003 Paper, "Japan's Economic Malaise: Three simple models for why Japan's economy will never grow again," Association of Japanese Business Studies, University of Quebec - Concordia School of Business, Montreal, Canada, June 2003.

Paper, "The End of Growth in Japan: Three Simple Models for Undergraduate Economists," ASIANetwork, Furman College, Greenville SC, April 2003.

Moderator, Viginia Consortium of Asian Studies, Randolph Macon Womens College, February 2003. Elected President for 2003-04.

2002 Presentation, Forum on Reforming Japan, Keidanren / Keizai Koho Center, Tokyo, December 2002. Synopsis in the Japan Times and (in Japanese) in the Sankei Shinbun.

Participant, Japan Economic Seminar, Washington DC, November 2002.

Discussant, Washington and Southeast Japan Seminar, William & Mary, October 2002.

Paper, "Exceptionalist Japan: The Nation without Nationalism," INR / U.S. Department of State Conference on Nationalism and Identity in Japan, September 2002.

Paper, "Restructuring the Japanese Automotive Industry," Association of Japanese Business Studies, St. Louis, June 2002.

Paper, "Restructuring the Japanese Automotive Industry" for "Colloquium on Japanese Firms: Organizing for Global Competitiveness," St. Louis, June 2002.

Discussant, Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer, "The Fable of the Keiretsu," Japan Economic Seminar, SAIS / Washington, DC, April 2002.

Keynote Speaker, "Japan's Economic Engine: Why Did It Stall, and Can It Be Restarted?" Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies, Mary Washington College, February 2002.

Affiliations & Professional AssociationsAmerican Economic Association

ASIANetwork

Association of Christian Economists

Association of Japanese Business Studies

Business History Conference

Japan Economic Seminar

Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies

Washington and Southeast Japan Seminar.

Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan

Professional Service and ConsultingBoard of Advisors, Daikin Corporation, Japan. Daikin is the leading residential HVAC firm in Japan and in the EU, and has a strong presence in most of the rest of the world.

Board of Advisors, Daikin US. Daikin's largest US operations are in the commercial HVAC sector through its subsidiary McQuay International. One of their primary production facilities (for commercial chillers) is in Staunton VA, a half hour north of W&L.

"A Relational Contracting Analysis of Supplier-Purchaser Interaction in the Japanese Corrosion-Resistant Steel Industry." Consultant Report for Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher for the US International Trade Commission Sunset Review on Antidumping Tariffs on Corrosion Resistant Steel. Expurgated public version available on the ITC web site. October 2006.

Judge, Automotive News PACE Supplier of the Year Award, 1994-present. Visit finalists to evaluate their innovation and prepare associated judging summaries for selection meeting. Attend selection meeting, award ceremony. Finalists visited include [* indicates winner]:

2005-6, Federal-Mogul* (Monosteel diesel piston), CogniTens* (OptiCell non-contact CMM system);

2004-5, Siemens VDO* (Deka VII gasoline fuel injector), Goodyear (TripleTred all-weather tire);

2003-4, DuPont* (TuTone wet-on-wet paint system), Intertec (Integral sealing instrument panel);

2002-3, Delphi (Forewarn radar backup assist), Perceptron* (Autogauge inline CMM system), Federal-Mogul* (ThermoQuiet brake pad series);

2001-2, SupplySolution (i-Supply supply chain inventory & order system), BASF (SCM UV sealer);

2000-1, Dana (Roboclamp hydroforming press), Hayes-Lemmerz (full-face cast aluminum wheel);

1999-2000, McCord Winn Textron* (Ritec one-shot integrated fan shroud), Guide Corporation (plastic injection molding valve gate process);

1998-9, TTC [Spicer/Desc] (AMT-7 automatic manual truck transmission), Benteler* (Windstar torson bar / crossmember)

1997-8, Gentex* (Aspheric electrochromic exterior mirror), Cooper Industries* (sealed headlight module);

1996-7, Delco [Delphi] (SDM-R airbag crash sensor module), Midwest Acoust-a-Fiber (heat shield system);

1995-6, Gentex (Integrated compass mirror), Brown & Sharpe (adjustable gauging fixture);

1994-5, United Technologies (warranty improvement process / quality diagnostic), TRW (airbag "mistake proofing" techniques)

President, Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies (2003-); Conference Chair (2003-4); Vice President (1999-2003); webmaster, 2000-present.

Council Member, National Coordinating Committee on Japanese Library Resources, 2004-. Currently Executive Committee Member and Regional Training Network Co-chair. I am one of two faculty members on the board of this consortium of libraries with Japan collections.

Treasurer, Washington and Southeast Japan Seminar, 2005-present.

Journal Referee: Journal of Japanese Studies, Sloan Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Asian Business and Management, Organizational Science and others.

Conference Referee: Association of Japanese Business Studies presentation proposals, 3-9 papers annually, 1992-present.

Book Referee: Yale University Press, Chicago University Press, Johns Hopkins Press, Lexington Books, Dryden Press and assorted textbook chapters for various publishers.

Board of Advisors, Journal of Japanese Studies (Summer 2001-Spring 2004).

Board of Advisors, Japanese Economic Studies (Summer 2002-present).

Member, editorial board, H-US-Japan discussion list (part of the H-Net system).

Research Associate, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.

Community Service & Activities Project Reviewer, United Way of Lexington-Rockbridge, 1996, 1999-2006.

Advisor, Venture Crew 180, Boy Scouts of America. District Venturing representative. I am the senior adult working with the Crew and also teach rock climbing. (Venturing is the co-ed end of scouts, ages 14-21.) District Scouting Award, 2005.

Member and past webmaster, Rockbridge Choral Society, 2001-2006.

Member and webmaster, Kendo Club, Waynesboro VA YMCA, 2002-2006.

Member, Chiba Community Center Kendo Club, 2006-7.

Member, choir, R.E. Lee Memorial Church, Lexington, 2005-.

Member, choir, St. Alban's Anglican Church, Tokyo, 2006-7.

Secretary-Treasurer, The EMBA Foundation, Inc., 1987-present. Handle all tax filings and financial affairs for a small foundation that works with Baptist churches in the northern Philippines.

Updated June 2007.

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