Society/Life
Society/Life
M’s Opinion Vol.58 Ensuring Rural Communities Will Not Disappear -A Form of Coexistence Between Urban and Rural Communities as Seen in a Return to Rural Living-
March 20, 2015
The Masuda Report Warns of the Disappearance of Country Life Q: Calling for the regeneration of the provinces including rural areas, Prime M ...
Society/Life
Japan’s manga industry -An international comparison-
March 19, 2015
When I was a child I immersed myself in reading manga comic books, particularly shojo manga (“girls’ manga”). Since I started at the age of ...
Society/Life
Is the “Yubari shock” now a thing of the past? -New municipal financial crises and the spread of citizen participation-
March 19, 2015
Looking back over recent incidents related to local government finance, the most painful was the “Yubari shock” of March 2007, when the city ...
Society/Life
Considering Social Problems from the Perspective of Public Policy -The Importance of Relativizing Things and Considering Them from Multifaceted Perspectives-
March 16, 2015
— Japan’s provinces are currently becoming impoverished, due to population decline and a rise in the elderly population. How do you see the ...
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The Ideal for Local Communities Amid a Decreasing Population -Building Interpersonal Ties While Valuing the Individual-
March 6, 2015
Even the Local Government System Research Council, to which I serve as a member, has needed to consider the issue of decreasing population a ...
Society/Life
An Urgent View on Putting the Brakes on Population Decreases -Employing Measures to Counter Low Birthrates, Reform Social Security, and Revitalize Local Regions-
March 5, 2015
Population economics, one of my fields of specialization, is a discipline that quantitatively analyzes the correlation between population an ...
Society/Life
The Negative Effects of Rapid Depreciation of the Yen and the Bank of Japan’s Policy of Quantitative Monetary Easing -A Need for Well-Balanced, Flexible Monetary Policy Management-
February 25, 2015
There are two fundamental issues behind the recent rapid depreciation of the yen, which has had impacts on areas including our daily lives a ...
Society/Life
Population Decline and Immigration Policy: Toward an Intercultural Japan
February 10, 2015
After graduating from a university in Tokyo, I moved to New York and went to graduate school in the 1980s. New York is a multiethnic city wi ...
Society/Life
Now is the Time to Think About End-of-Life Issues -Issues Related to the Transition from the Baby Boom Generation to the Post-Baby Boom Generation-
February 2, 2015
Today medical and welfare systems are being restructured with a focus on the year 2025. This is because that is the year that the baby boom ...