ICJS Event: Doug Karsner: "Air Wars - Japanese and American Airlines Competition for Transpacific Air Routes, 1946-1971"

TUJ Adjunct Professor (and Associate Professor at Bloomburg University) Doug Karsner will lecture about his research on the changing nature of the competition between Japanese and American airlines for passenger and cargo routes during the formative early postwar period. The lecture covers the historical period from 1946 when the U.S. government first certified Northwest and Pan American airlines to fly to Japan, to 1971, the era of mass air travel which took off amidst major economic changes such as the Nixon Shocks. In this lecture, Prof. Karsner will argue that a complex mixture of diplomatic and economic factors shaped Japanese and American airlines transpacific route rivalries.