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daily nebraskan
Conference to study Japanese business success
By Tom Shelton
The success of business in Japan, a topic which a UNL
professor called the hottest topic in management today "
will be discussed at a Japan-United States business confer
ence Oct. 4 through 7 at the Nebraska Center for Continu
ing Education.
Sang Lee, a UNL management professor and general
chairman for the program committee of the conference,
said the conference offers people in the United States an
opportunity to learn about Japanese business practices.
"We're trying to learn why the Japanese are doing so
well in business," Lee said.
"They're (the Japanese) number one in so many
things," Lee said. "Automobile production, electronics,
TV sets, video set recorders, cameras, watches - this they
took over from Switzerland - ship building, steel produc
tion, even in fashion designing, overtaking the French,"
he said.
Lee said the Japanese have made a rapid rise in world
business. "We used to think Japanese were good imitators,"
he said. "No longer is this the case. They're showing crea
tivity Lee said this is the first such international conference
of its kind in the United States involving business repre
sentatives from the two nations. He said it had been the
practice of U.S. business executives to travel to Japan to
observe Japanese business operations.
Lee said faculty members of the College of Business
Administration are happy to be holding the conference
in. Nebraska. He credited Gary Schwendiman, dean of
the business college as being influential in enabling the
conference to be in Nebraska.
Lee said the fact that Kawasaki Motors is in Lincoln is
a reason the conference will be here.
Representatives of American and Japanese business and
scholars from both countries will be featured at the con
ference. Of the 250 persons expected, 50 represent American
business and 25 are Japanese businessmen or scholars.
American business will be represented by executives
from the automobile, insurance and service industries, as
well as by other heavy manufacturing and marketing',
dustries.
Japanese representatives are from Toyota, Honda, Ya
maha and Kawasaki companies.
Japan's ambassador to the United States, Yoshio Oka
war a, will attend Sunday evening's opening ceremonies.
Other participants in the conference include: Ezra
Vogel of Harvard University; William Ouchi of UCLA
Robert Angel of Washington, D.C.; Jinichiro Nakane, pro-'
fessor of management at Waseda University in Tokyo; Eu
gene J. Kelley, dean of the College of Business Adminis
tration at Pennsylvania State University; Motto Kaji of the
University of Tokyo, Daniel M. Kasper of Washington,
D.C.; and several others.
A complete listing of the speeches and presentations of
the conference is available in the Japan-U.S. business con
ference schedule of events.
The conference is sponsored by UNL and the College
and University Partnership Program.
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