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From the 20th century to comfort of the 21st century: Smart communities are under way
November 13, 2018
Summer in Japan this year was scorching, with new record-high temperatures being set in various parts of the country. Japan was also hit har ...
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In truth, everyone knows that it’s not fun if one person always wins a game
November 8, 2018
Shinichi Nakazawa, Director of “Institut pour la Science Sauvage” of Meiji University, points out that the world today has started to be gam ...
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You could get arrested just for being named in a “plea bargain”
October 29, 2018
The Amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure came into force on June 1, 2018. It has introduced a so-called “plea-bargaining” system. How ...
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Did the “majority” make LGBT as “others?”
October 26, 2018
In recent years in Japan more and more municipalities have instituted a system officially allowing same-sex marriage. Some view that an unde ...
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Is a legal framework needed to prevent damage from torrential rains!?
October 19, 2018
CO2 emissions reduction has been a global issue. Japan set a goal to cut emissions by 26.0％ by 2030 from its 2013 level by ensuring emission ...
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Declining marriage and ever-increasing childlessness – Japan’s future will be lost if nothing is done
October 3, 2018
Japan’s very low fertility has entered a new phase. The annual births in 2016 were 977,000, a decrease of 29,000 from the previous year, goi ...
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Can Japan break away from being an “underdeveloped country” in women’s political participation?
September 27, 2018
In May 2018, the “Act on Promotion of Gender Equality in the Political Field ,” which aims to achieve gender parity in the number of candida ...
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Democracy and Militarism: Can they coexist?
July 23, 2018
This April, a major of the Joint Staff Office in the Ministry of Defense used abusive language against a member of the Diet on the street. T ...
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Does insurance save small and medium-sized enterprises in the disaster-prone country of Japan?
June 28, 2018
Studies to verify the reconstruction have advanced as seven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011. Among ...