Marie Anchordoguy is an Associate Professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and specializes in the political economy of Japan. Her research has focused primarily on the role of the state in Japan's industrial development. she has published several aricles and a book including "Mastering the Market: Japanese Government Targeting of the Computing Industry," International Organization, vol. 42, no. 2, summer 1988, Computers, Inc.: Japan's Challenge to IBM (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1989), and "Japanese-American Trade Conflict and Supercomputers," Political Science Quarterly, vol. 109, no. 1, spring 1994. She has recently completed an article titled "Japan at a Technological Crossroads?", which explores Japan's transition from a producer-oriented nation to one more oriented towards invention. She is currently working on several projects including a study of Japan's software industry and a book exploring how the state managed competition in Japan's telecommunications, computer, semiconductor, software, and consumer electronics industries. She received her undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley.