How Japan became Invisible without losing Dominance

A new episode of the Best Anchor Stocks podcast has just dropped!

This week I was lucky enough to be joined by Ulrike Schaede. I came to know Ulrike after reading the two books she has authored on Japanese business (The Business Reinvention of Japan and Japan Re-Emerges) and thought it would be a great idea to have her on the podcast to discuss (among other things):

1. The bubble period in Japan

2. How Japan became Invisible without losing dominance

3. Other trends in Japan like digitization and the labor market flexibilization

Regardless of whether you are interested or not interested in Japan, I feel it’s a great episode to understand how Japan has slowly but steadily transitioned its economy.

You can listen to the episode on Spotify/Apple Podcasts:

Or you can watch it on Youtube:

Paid subscribers, as always, also get access to the edited transcript of the conversation.

Here it is:

Leandro: Today I have the pleasure of having Ulrike Schaede in the podcast. I'm going to give a brief introduction about Ulrike and I think it's going to be a good segway into what we're going to discuss today. So Ulrike is the professor of Japanese business at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and also the founding director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology. And the way I got to know Ulrike actually is by reading her two books, she's authored two books which you can see here. One is the Business Reinvention of Japan and the other one is Japan Re-emerges. So I think it's pretty obvious what we're going to talk about today, which is Japan.