Society/Life
Society/Life
Toward New Disaster-Resilient Community Development -An Approach Based on “Pre-Disaster Restoration”-
April 2, 2015
Twenty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and four years since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Over this period, th ...
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Let’s Live a Theatrical Live -and Give Up Our Daily Life Holed Up in Social Media-
March 26, 2015
Our Society is a Huge Theater As long as we live, we constantly have to express our own thoughts through...
Society/Life
Striking a blow at the issue of Japan’s declining birthrate -Causes lie in the increasing tendency towards unmarried, late marriage, and late childbirth-
March 23, 2015
Japan's continuously declining birthrate is a serious issue greatly impacting social security as well as the overall economy. I am a member ...
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Cutting Edge of Risk Management in Financial Institutions and its Pitfalls -Toward Use of Quantitative Methods Considering their Theoretical Limits-
March 23, 2015
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Cutting Edge of Risk Management I have many years’ experience working as an actuary at a...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...