Society/Life

Exploring the optimal solution to break away from deflationary spiral by comparing the financial environment of Japan and the U.S.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida indicated that he will “definitely establish the wage rises which exceed price increases after 2025” at the end ...

What do the emergency measures for resolving the teacher shortage bring to education?

The teacher shortage in elementary, junior high, and high schools is becoming a major societal issue. One municipality has even started to h ...

Intestinal bacteria and oligosaccharides hold the key to baby formula which is the same as breast milk

Oligosaccharides are contained in fermented foods such as yogurt, and have the image of being good for our insides. Its mechanism of contrib ...

Manufacturing and global supply chain management

The term “global supply chain” has been heard more and more in economic news. Globalization has made the supply chain so complicated that an ...

Transition management, stimulating a structural change at the societal level

Various initiatives have been promoted at the grassroots level in order to resolve extremely long-term and large-scale societal issues, such ...

Asset price from the perspective of the specs of condominiums costing more than 100 million yen

The prices of condominiums in Tokyo city center are skyrocketing, and especially the higher floors in the popular areas have become unattain ...

Physical Internet aims to solve 2024 problem in distribution

In Japan, the distribution crisis caused by the shortage of drivers has been anticipated for several years. In April this year, it was stipu ...

Will everyone be considered suspicious by surveillance cameras?

We hear the term “surveillance society” more often nowadays. Originally, the term was mainly used with the authoritarian states that monitor ...

The imminent need to transform public spaces is a big opportunity to enrich cities

Technological development and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly changed the shape of cities. Public spaces, in particular, are attracting m ...