Society/Life
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 ...
Society/Life
The Psychology of Abuse, a Continual Vicious Cycle -Psychological Support for Trauma and PTSD-
January 13, 2015
Based on my past experience working in the department of psychoneurology at a university hospital as a clinical psychologist and my current ...
Society/Life
Readiness for Natural Disasters Occurring in Combination -Views on Disaster Prevention in Contemporary Japan-
January 8, 2015
Japan’s Disaster Prevention Day, September 1, marks the date of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. More than 100,000 people lost their live ...
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Recommendations for Individuals and Organizations -Society Rampant individuality and the Individuals Needed as Members of Society-
June 30, 2014
My subject of research is “organizations.” I approach organizations from a sociological perspective and consider the relationships between o ...
Society/Life
Recommendations for the Consumption Tax: Problems on the Consumption Tax -Achieving the Contrivance that Are Required-
June 16, 2014
In April 2014 the consumption tax was raised for the first time in 17 years to 8%, with another tax increase to 10% slated for the fall 2015 ...
Society/Life
Solving the Problems Rampant throughout a Society with a Shrinking Population Beset by Falling Birthrates and an Aging Population “Changing People’s Way of Thinking through Social Marketing”
June 11, 2014
I have taken “Industrial psychology” as my field of study. Industrial psychology is scholarship that theoretically and empirically studies h ...