List of Articles
Society/Life
Meiji Ishin was accomplished by the painstaking hard work of many Sego-don
December 18, 2018
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Meiji Ishin (literally: “the great renewal of Meiji” ). The Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) ha ...
IT/Science
The number of system engineers in Japan is actually decreasing as computer programming education becomes more widely available!
November 26, 2018
Computer programming education will become mandatory in Japanese elementary schools from academic year 2020. While many people expect that t ...
Society/Life
Financial literacy of general investor and IPO bubble
November 20, 2018
Recently, the opening prices of initial public offerings (IPOs) tend to exceed their public offering prices, and an image of IPOs as a profi ...
Press Releases
The National Palace Museum of Taiwan is currently exhibiting 35 works of visual illusion by Professor SUGIHARA Kokichi, Director of the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences (MIMS)
November 16, 2018
Events related to the “Betwixt Reality and Illusion – Special Exhibition of Jades from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty in the C ...
Society/Life
From the 20th century to comfort of the 21st century: Smart communities are under way
November 13, 2018
Summer in Japan this year was scorching, with new record-high temperatures being set in various parts of the country. Japan was also hit har ...
Society/Life
In truth, everyone knows that it’s not fun if one person always wins a game
November 8, 2018
Shinichi Nakazawa, Director of “Institut pour la Science Sauvage” of Meiji University, points out that the world today has started to be gam ...
Society/Life
You could get arrested just for being named in a “plea bargain”
October 29, 2018
The Amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure came into force on June 1, 2018. It has introduced a so-called “plea-bargaining” system. How ...
Society/Life
Did the “majority” make LGBT as “others?”
October 26, 2018
In recent years in Japan more and more municipalities have instituted a system officially allowing same-sex marriage. Some view that an unde ...
International
“Aging” Japan vs. Africa, the “youngest continent” in the world
October 24, 2018
The recent remarkable economic growth in the countries in Africa has been frequently reported by the media in Japan. This does not seem to b ...