International

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Thinking about Our Next Actions

When we think about supporting developing countries, we tend to conjure up images of visiting the countries firsthand and implementing local ...

A perspective for a multi-ethnic Japan

From its geographical and religious distributions characteristics, Southeast Asia can be broadly divided into the continental(mainland) part ...

Sustainable Living in a Time of Global Warming -Learning from Herders in Mongolia-

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which carries out scientific assessment of global warming, has published its Fifth Ass ...

Reviewing the Midterm Elections in the U.S. -Changes in President Obama’s Leadership and the Importance of House-to-House Canvassing-

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 ...

Light and Shadow in a Brazil that kindhearted Hosts the World Cup A call for intercultural exchange

I first became involved with Brazil in 2009, when I was working at an American university studying my area of specialization of insurance an ...

How to confront environmental risks: A proposal for risk democracy

In my specialty of environmental sociology, we study environmental risk and environmental destruction as well as environmental movements, re ...

Looking at the World from a dual Perspective of Political Science and Information and Telecommunications Policy

I specialize in American telecommunications policy, which I summarized in my doctoral thesis, and also in Internet-based election campaignin ...