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Saving lives and Protecting livelihoods: a motivation to support each other and preparations for an earthquake, now
January 11, 2017
Whilst pressing ahead with countermeasures against a massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough or earthquakes occurring below the Tokyo capita ...
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Radiation in the Air is Not Transferred to Crops! Harmful Rumors Come from Misunderstandings
December 12, 2016
Harmful rumors about the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011 are said to still have a lasting impact. It was recen ...
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Building local communities which will resolve the issue of support for the elderly
December 9, 2016
Japan is now entering the era of a super-aging society (people aged 65 and older make up 26.7% of the total population, and there are more t ...
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Is it Acceptable to Lower the Maximum Age for Application of the Juvenile Act?
December 8, 2016
In response to lowering the minimum age for voting to age 18, it is now being considered to lower the maximum age to age 17 for application ...
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The real problem is the intent that rejects the emperor’s will to abdicate before death
October 19, 2016
It had been in the news that the Emperor was looking to abdicate, and finally on August 8th, the Emperor himself released a statement. Why t ...
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Create an expression for informed consent
October 6, 2016
I am sure most of you feel that these days, physicians give you a longer explanation than before when you receive treatment for an illness. ...
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Preventing child abuse through society-wide childrearing support
September 21, 2016
The recent case of a 7-year-old boy being left behind in the mountains as an attempt at parental discipline, who subsequently became lost an ...
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2020 Tokyo Olympics will become the best opportunity for the new Governor of Tokyo
August 29, 2016
The new Governor of Tokyo has been elected after the successive resignation of the former Governors, Naoki Inose and Yoichi Masuzoe, due to ...
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The LGBT Boom Indicates a Transformation into a Society That Values Diversity
August 26, 2016
Have you ever heard the term “LGBT?” An initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, it is a generic term for a varie ...