Society/Life
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Co-operatives provide a model for achieving decent life and work
April 23, 2019
Workers’ co-operatives have recently been attracting global attention. Japan is making preparations for enacting a law on workers’ co-operat ...
Society/Life
Will cheap bioplastics appear before marine pollution reaches the limit?
March 26, 2019
Plastics have been associated with the depletion of oil resources and waste problems for years, and recently, marine pollution caused by pla ...
Society/Life
Is user generosity making smartphone fees high in Japan?
February 28, 2019
In August 2018, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said mobile phone fees have room for a 40% cut. The reduction of mobile phone ...
Society/Life
What we cannot restore and the hidden Christians did not lose for 250 years
February 25, 2019
On June 30, 2018, Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region were registered as a World Heritage. It was recognized for the existence of ...
Society/Life
The AE method, a non-destructive testing technique to encourage objects to say, “Ouch!”
January 25, 2019
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the deterioration of infrastructure facilities due to aging. However, it is reported that ther ...
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Why is government necessary? We would be lost without government but we must be careful not to depend on it too much
January 16, 2019
There are data telling us that the trust of government in Japan is overwhelmingly low compared to that in foreign countries. What is the cau ...
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Would the house you live protect you from earthquakes?
December 21, 2018
Severe earthquakes with magnitudes of around 6 have struck our country several times in 2018. Regarding Kanto and other regions today, peopl ...
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Meiji Ishin was accomplished by the painstaking hard work of many Sego-don
December 18, 2018
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Meiji Ishin (literally: “the great renewal of Meiji” ). The Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) ha ...
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Financial literacy of general investor and IPO bubble
November 20, 2018
Recently, the opening prices of initial public offerings (IPOs) tend to exceed their public offering prices, and an image of IPOs as a profi ...