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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 ...
Society/Life
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 ...
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The most effective measure against the declining birth rate is to create a gender-equal society
August 22, 2016
It has been some time since people began calling for measures against the declining birth rate. According to the 2015 Vital Statistics (anno ...
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Reading literary texts of Natsume Soseki from the viewpoint of “urban space” on the centennial of his death
June 27, 2016
The year 2016 marks the centennial of the death of Natsume Soseki, a literary legend. Soseki wrote many literary texts on the subject of rom ...
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What is Seen from the “Back Side” of Nuclear Lawsuits
June 17, 2016
In 2016, different decisions were made in two lawsuits for the suspension of nuclear power plants. One of them is a temporary injunction iss ...