Prof. John Price

John Price teaches Japanese history at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Japan Works:Power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations published by Cornell University Press in 1997. He sits on the advisory board of the Centre of Transnational Labour Studies, based in Tokyo, and is an editor of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. He was one of the organizers of the People's Summit on APEC, the parallel meeting to the APEC leaders meeting in Vancouver in 1997 and participated in the writing of an NGO policy brief to the federal government, "Canada and APEC: Perspectives from Civil Society"(July 1997). He is a founding member of the Canada Asia Pacific Resource Network, an NGO dedicated to research and solidarity for sustainable development in the Asia Pacific. He is currently doing research on Canada and the Cold War in Asia.