Society/Life
M’s Opinion Vol.58 Ensuring Rural Communities Will Not Disappear -A Form of Coexistence Between Urban and Rural Communities as Seen in a Return to Rural Living-
March 20, 2015
The Masuda Report Warns of the Disappearance of Country Life Q: Calling for the regeneration of the provinces including rural areas, Prime M ...
Society/Life
Is the “Yubari shock” now a thing of the past? -New municipal financial crises and the spread of citizen participation-
March 19, 2015
Looking back over recent incidents related to local government finance, the most painful was the “Yubari shock” of March 2007, when the city ...
Society/Life
Japan’s manga industry -An international comparison-
March 19, 2015
When I was a child I immersed myself in reading manga comic books, particularly shojo manga (“girls’ manga”). Since I started at the age of ...
International
Sustainable Living in a Time of Global Warming -Learning from Herders in Mongolia-
March 18, 2015
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which carries out scientific assessment of global warming, has published its Fifth Ass ...
Society/Life
Considering Social Problems from the Perspective of Public Policy -The Importance of Relativizing Things and Considering Them from Multifaceted Perspectives-
March 16, 2015
— Japan’s provinces are currently becoming impoverished, due to population decline and a rise in the elderly population. How do you see the ...
Career/Education
Dreaming of Winning the Hakone Ekiden Long-Distance Road Relay -Tracing 20 Years of Struggle by the Track and Field Club-
March 10, 2015
I was named the advisor to the Track and Field Club exactly 20 years ago, in 1995. As I prepare for retirement after 43 years as an educator ...
Business
Reviving the Community Economy through Family Businesses -Restoring the Dynamism of Japan as a Whole-
March 9, 2015
Traditionally, the mainstream in business administration has been an American-style market-based approach, and the same has been true of bus ...
Society/Life
The Ideal for Local Communities Amid a Decreasing Population -Building Interpersonal Ties While Valuing the Individual-
March 6, 2015
Even the Local Government System Research Council, to which I serve as a member, has needed to consider the issue of decreasing population a ...
Society/Life
An Urgent View on Putting the Brakes on Population Decreases -Employing Measures to Counter Low Birthrates, Reform Social Security, and Revitalize Local Regions-
March 5, 2015
Population economics, one of my fields of specialization, is a discipline that quantitatively analyzes the correlation between population an ...