PACIFIC ASIAN LECTURE SERIES: Weekly lectures on international business topics presented by the University of Hawaii Summer Session and the Pacific Asian Management Institute of the University of Hawaii. Lectures are 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, UH-Manoa, College of Business Administration, Room C102. Free. Call 956-8041.

This week: "A Profile of Today's Young Consumer in Japan" by Arthur B. Anderson, a research fellow at PAMI/CIBER. Learn about three distinct consumer groups between the ages of 18 and 35.

NEW ZEALAND LUNCHEON LECTURE: "Privatization Works in New Zealand" by A.A. "Bud" Smyser, contributing editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Plaza Club, 20th floor. Cost: $16 for Hawaii Economic Association members, $20 nonmembers. Call 537-8177.