Society/Life

Cutting Edge of Risk Management in Financial Institutions and its Pitfalls -Toward Use of Quantitative Methods Considering their Theoretical Limits-

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Cutting Edge of Risk Management I have many years’ experience working as an actuary at a...

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-

The Masuda Report Warns of the Disappearance of Country Life Q: Calling for the regeneration of the provinces including rural areas, Prime M ...

Is the “Yubari shock” now a thing of the past? -New municipal financial crises and the spread of citizen participation-

Looking back over recent incidents related to local government finance, the most painful was the “Yubari shock” of March 2007, when the city ...

Japan’s manga industry -An international comparison-

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 ...

Considering Social Problems from the Perspective of Public Policy -The Importance of Relativizing Things and Considering Them from Multifaceted Perspectives-

— Japan’s provinces are currently becoming impoverished, due to population decline and a rise in the elderly population. How do you see the ...

The Ideal for Local Communities Amid a Decreasing Population -Building Interpersonal Ties While Valuing the Individual-

Even the Local Government System Research Council, to which I serve as a member, has needed to consider the issue of decreasing population a ...

An Urgent View on Putting the Brakes on Population Decreases -Employing Measures to Counter Low Birthrates, Reform Social Security, and Revitalize Local Regions-

Population economics, one of my fields of specialization, is a discipline that quantitatively analyzes the correlation between population an ...

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-

There are two fundamental issues behind the recent rapid depreciation of the yen, which has had impacts on areas including our daily lives a ...

Population Decline and Immigration Policy: Toward an Intercultural Japan

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 ...