International

Social cohesiveness also generates prejudice. Release yourself more freely!!

A society is its language. As you study the language of a certain country, its society will come into view. Then, how does Japanese society ...

The power of education is needed to accept more foreign workers successfully

The revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (“Immigration Control Act”) passed in December 2018 and will come into force in ...

The message contained in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Volunteers

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are now a little over one year away. Amid rising interest in athletes who are expected to do wel ...

Does globalization make people free? Does it jeopardize identity?

In the wake of the recent global events, including the Brexit vote, neo-liberalism in the US, and the rise of right-wing politics in various ...

“Aging” Japan vs. Africa, the “youngest continent” in the world

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 ...

We, as Japanese, do not want to hold our tongues on “Japan’s Annexation of Korea”

The Inter-Korean Summit Meeting and the U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting were held sequentially, paving the way for the denuclearization of t ...

Is the real threat to Asia not China or North Korea, but Japan?

After the Japan-U.S. Summit in November 2017, Japan promised to purchase various expensive military weapons from the United States. Threats ...

Japan has outstanding agricultural technologies to combat climate change; will it ...

Climate change attributable to global warming has impacted various aspects of our lives. In particular, crop failure caused by abnormal weat ...

How could we continue to place information of Muslims in the “unwanted box?”

Since the September 11 attacks and the Islamic State’s killings of Japanese hostages, Japanese people have an image that Islam is a terrifyi ...