List of Articles
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 ...
Career/Education
Breaking Free From Issues in Contemporary Job Seeking -Recommendations for Students and Employers Bound by a Unified Value System-
March 3, 2015
Q: In the face of various issues, the time at which students are able to begin activities to seek work (i.e., the time when employers begin ...
Society/Life
The Negative Effects of Rapid Depreciation of the Yen and the Bank of Japan’s Policy of Quantitative Monetary Easing -A Need for Well-Balanced, Flexible Monetary Policy Management-
February 25, 2015
There are two fundamental issues behind the recent rapid depreciation of the yen, which has had impacts on areas including our daily lives a ...