Society/Life

Readiness for Natural Disasters Occurring in Combination -Views on Disaster Prevention in Contemporary Japan-

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 ...

Recommendations for Individuals and Organizations -Society Rampant individuality and the Individuals Needed as Members of Society-

My subject of research is “organizations.” I approach organizations from a sociological perspective and consider the relationships between o ...

Recommendations for the Consumption Tax: Problems on the Consumption Tax -Achieving the Contrivance that Are Required-

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 ...

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”

I have taken “Industrial psychology” as my field of study. Industrial psychology is scholarship that theoretically and empirically studies h ...

Recommendations to Citizens concerning TPP Negotiations -Deciphering the Course of TPP Negotiations: The Judgment Required of Individual Citizens-

I worked in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for 25 years, and was engaged in negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partner ...

Toward a Smart-Grid Society Using Renewable Energy: A society using zero fossil fuels and free from CO2 -Achieving a power network that uses renewable energy-

Already the issue of global warming is recognized widely as a global issue. The effects of warming, such as rising sea levels, abnormal weat ...

A Proposal for a Globalized World: Globalized Constitutions -A Multi-layered System for Protecting Human Rights-

The world is in constant motion. In countries that experience dramatic changes, a debate usually arises after change has occurred (and somet ...

A Proposal on the Problems of Exclusion and Inequality -Considering the Problems of Exclusion and Inequality from the Perspective of Human Defensiveness-

Social psychology, my specialist field, is an academic field that researches every aspect of human behavior in society. The targets of socia ...

A Proposal on the Relationship between Society and the Self

The concept of “me” could be described as the defining characteristic of modern art. In the past, music, fine art and literature belonged to ...