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The situations of inbound and outbound tourists have reversed in Japan. What should Japan do now to become a Tourism Nation?
June 11, 2016
According to an announcement by the Japan Tourism Agency, the number of foreign tourists who visited Japan (inbound tourists) in 2015 was 19 ...
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What Japan can learn from the U.S. presidential election
March 23, 2016
2016 is a presidential election year for the United States of America. The United States has great power of influence worldwide, and the que ...
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Thinking about Our Next Actions
December 22, 2015
When we think about supporting developing countries, we tend to conjure up images of visiting the countries firsthand and implementing local ...
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A perspective for a multi-ethnic Japan
March 23, 2015
From its geographical and religious distributions characteristics, Southeast Asia can be broadly divided into the continental(mainland) part ...
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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 ...
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Reviewing the Midterm Elections in the U.S. -Changes in President Obama’s Leadership and the Importance of House-to-House Canvassing-
January 8, 2015
I believe that behind this defeat of the Democratic Party in the midterm elections is the fact that President Obama’s leadership can no long ...
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Light and Shadow in a Brazil that kindhearted Hosts the World Cup A call for intercultural exchange
September 4, 2014
I first became involved with Brazil in 2009, when I was working at an American university studying my area of specialization of insurance an ...
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How to confront environmental risks: A proposal for risk democracy
October 22, 2013
In my specialty of environmental sociology, we study environmental risk and environmental destruction as well as environmental movements, re ...
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Looking at the World from a dual Perspective of Political Science and Information and Telecommunications Policy
October 10, 2013
I specialize in American telecommunications policy, which I summarized in my doctoral thesis, and also in Internet-based election campaignin ...