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What makes music fascinating and interesting is the plurality of its forms

Today, with the development of compact players, ICT, AI, and other technologies, we live in a world where music is always around us. We coul ...

Is philosophy unrealistic?

Many people have the image that philosophy is not useful in the real world. At the same time, an increasing number of people believe that it ...

What does enthusiasm for professional baseball bring to us?

In the world of politics and religion, inciting people to become excited often causes significant incidents and problems. Meanwhile, there a ...

Professor IDA Masamichi, School of Political Science and Economics, commented on KYODO NEWS on Sep. 29, 2021, “FOCUS: Kishida’s longevity as PM hinges on Nov. general election”

Fumio Kishida will not have much time to bask in his victory in the race for leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and, hence, t ...

COVID-19 and Civility

Civility is a term for civil and respectful behavior. To prevent politicians and administrators from surmising someone’s intent and falsifyi ...

Flexibility of former colony Algeria for which “French is a trophy”

In today's increasingly globalized world, multicultural coexistence is said to be an important issue, even in Japan. At the same time, there ...

What wisdom is required to change the behavior that is leading to climate change?

In recent years, extreme weather events have supposedly increased owing to climate change. Since the key contributing factor is considered t ...

What we can understand from “it is natural for humans to be able to speak language”

We tend to think that Japanese grammar and English grammar are completely different, but do you know that they have common rules and regular ...

High time to review concept of multicultural coexistence in Japan

A commercial released by a sporting goods maker in November 2020 came up in discussion, as it took up the issue of racial discrimination in ...