Society/Life
Early Enactment of Legislation Regarding Medically Assisted Reproduction Needed for Welfare of Children
August 28, 2017
In 2014, 1 out of 21 children was born as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Medically assisted reproduction such as by IVF is nothin ...
Business
“The distribution crisis is a new business opportunity” from a logistics perspective
August 24, 2017
The distribution crisis has now become a social problem. The number of packages for home delivery in FY2015 was approx. 3.7 billion and that ...
IT/Science
Challenging the wall of 1/100 second, aiming for an effective hearing aid for the elderly
July 20, 2017
Japan is now becoming an aged society, where one in four people is a person aged 65 years or over. Mechanisms to support functions of the bo ...
Society/Life
The lay judge system is actually incompatible with the essence of justice!?
July 18, 2017
The lay judge system started in 2009 and this is its 8th year. According to the survey of the Supreme Court, year by year, there is an incre ...
Society/Life
Today’s economics cannot explain the sustainability of the Jomon society!?
July 13, 2017
Recently, it is often said that archaeology is again experiencing a boom. One may dream and have romantic ideas about ancient Japan or try t ...
International
America’s sense of crisis pushed Trump to presidency
June 23, 2017
While the preliminary polls for the United States presidential election in 2016 favored Hillary Clinton, it was Donald Trump who won the ele ...
International
Can we expect reforms from the Trump administration that scapegoat immigrants?
June 22, 2017
In Japan, the Trump administration, which advocates antiforeignism and conservatism, tends to be seen as a regressive administration that pu ...
International
President Trump’s Authoritarian Language
June 20, 2017
The language and behavior of U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated in January this year, is unthinkable by the standards of past ...
Society/Life
From a society without the need for a nuclear power plant to an even more sustainable society
June 16, 2017
There was a big confusion in the summer of 2011, the year of the Great East Japan Earthquake, about possible electricity shortage. Six years ...