Society/Life
Declining marriage and ever-increasing childlessness – Japan’s future will be lost if nothing is done
October 3, 2018
Japan’s very low fertility has entered a new phase. The annual births in 2016 were 977,000, a decrease of 29,000 from the previous year, goi ...
Society/Life
Can Japan break away from being an “underdeveloped country” in women’s political participation?
September 27, 2018
In May 2018, the “Act on Promotion of Gender Equality in the Political Field ,” which aims to achieve gender parity in the number of candida ...
IT/Science
Can origami contribute to space development and save the future of human beings!?
September 26, 2018
News of launching large space structures such as solar sails into space has been a topic of conversation for some time because Japanese Orig ...
International
We, as Japanese, do not want to hold our tongues on “Japan’s Annexation of Korea”
August 23, 2018
The Inter-Korean Summit Meeting and the U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting were held sequentially, paving the way for the denuclearization of t ...
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Meiji University × The Japan Times: Meiji program empowers cultural connections
August 22, 2018
The English Track program at The School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University is an English-based bachelor’s degree program that ha ...
International
Is the real threat to Asia not China or North Korea, but Japan?
August 22, 2018
After the Japan-U.S. Summit in November 2017, Japan promised to purchase various expensive military weapons from the United States. Threats ...
International
Japan has outstanding agricultural technologies to combat climate change; will it help the world!?
August 9, 2018
Climate change attributable to global warming has impacted various aspects of our lives. In particular, crop failure caused by abnormal weat ...
Career/Education
Do sports help you develop obedience, or independence?
August 6, 2018
There are never-ceasing scandals such as sexual harassment, power harassment and violence in the sports settings. They tend to be seen as pr ...
Society/Life
Democracy and Militarism: Can they coexist?
July 23, 2018
This April, a major of the Joint Staff Office in the Ministry of Defense used abusive language against a member of the Diet on the street. T ...