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Former Self-Defense Forces Members Volunteering in Mine Clearance Overseas:...
In May 2002, retired UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) disposal experts from the Ground Self-Defense Force, established a new organization, the Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS). An estimated 100 million mines...
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A Second Home in Japan— What comes next after the visitor boom is semi-residence
The number of Chinese people visiting Japan is increasing at an explosive rate. In addition to the weak yen, the relaxation of requirements for visa issuance is also providing a boost. There is an...
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Postman’s Persistence Reunites a Japanese Teacher with Students from Eighty...
A letter was sent from Japan to an address in Taichung, in the middle of Taiwan, that did not exist anymore. The letter was sent by a 106-year-old Japanese woman who used to be a teacher at an...
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A New Era of Michi-no-eki Takes Off! – Ever-evolving community hubs for local...
Michi-no-eki or the roadside station system was launched in 1993, and has since expanded nationwide to a total of 1,040 locations, with annual sales reaching 210 billion yen (as of fiscal year 2012)....
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What Is True Internationalization? – Nurturing Creative Leaders –
How do we nurture people who can act internationally? YAMAGIWA Juichi, President of Kyoto University What do we mean when we talk about the internationalization of universities? In my view, education...
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“Palliative Medicine” rather than “Life-Prolonging Medicine” for Elderly...
KOJIMA Akira, Chairman of World Trade Center Tokyo, Inc., Member, Board of Trustees of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Mark Twain said with humor, “The only two certainties in life...
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Thinking about Terminal Care for the Elderly – What it means to attend the...
Introduction MASUDA Hiroya, Chairman of Japan Policy Council, Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School Now that Japan has become a major country of longevity in the world, social...
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Thinking about Terminal Care for the ElderlyChapter 1: Medicine in the age of...
1. The change in the population structure and medicine for the elderly OHSHIMA Shinichi, President Emeritus, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology With the world’s highest average life...
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Thinking about End-of-life Care for the ElderlyChapter 2: From the...
1. Landscape of end-of-life care for the elderly AITA Kaoruko, Uehiro Associate Professor for the Center for Death & Life Studies and Practical Ethics, the Graduate School of Humanities and...
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Thinking about Terminal Care for the ElderlyChapter 3: Thinking from the...
The era of multiple deaths is coming in Japan. There were around 1.2 million deaths in 2014, but 2025 is projected to see annual deaths of 1.6 million. Cancer, which comes at the top of the rankings of...
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Internationalization at Universities – True or FalseIf All Lessons at...
The Illusion of Global Human Resources SHIMIZU Maki, Professor at Meiji University There is currently an atmosphere in and around Japanese universities of innocently agreeing to what is termed the...
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Japan as a Society Dependent on Convenience StoresIs Survival without...
TAKEMOTO Ryota, Vice Senior Researcher, Investment Research Department II, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Research Institute Co., Ltd. Buying goods from foodstuffs to daily necessities at a convenience store...
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Is Relocation to Regional Cities the Equivalent of Abandoning Old People in...
MASUDA Hiroya, Chairman of the Japan Policy Council MASUZOE Yoichi, Governor of Tokyo The Demise of the Regions and the Elderly Population Crisis in Tokyo Is One and the Same Problem Masuda: In June,...
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Symbolic Phenomenon of a Declining Regional Economy of JapanThe Issue of...
YOSHIZAKI Tatsuhiko, Economist The issue of “shuttered shopping streets” is a symbolic phenomenon of a declining regional economy, one of the greatest challenges for Japan, which is suffering from a...
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New Plan for Reforming the Japanese ArchipelagoPlan for Remodeling a...
YAMAMOTO Kazumune, chief producer of News Division at Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation Shuttered shopping streets have become known as a symbol of a declining regional economy. During the period of high...
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Internationalization at Universities – True or FalseThe Emptiness of “Global...
The Advancing “All Japan” Initiative YOSHIDA Aya, Professor at the Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University “Global human resources”—It’s now become a household phrase,...
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When Idols Shone BrightlyDevelopment of Japan, the Idol Nation, and the...
Japan, the Nation of the Idol SAKAI Masayoshi, Visiting Researcher, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan In 2013, the NHK morning drama Amachan and the TBS drama Hanzawa...
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Japan as a Society Dependent on Convenience Stores What Attracts Me to...
Thinking about American Culture from an Outside Perspective Gavin H. Whitelaw, Sr. Associate Professor, International Christian University I am a cultural anthropologist and my research focuses on...
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Primatology (ape studies) and DNA research unlock the answers…Where Do Human...
Racial discrimination, sex, the aging population… Watching gorillas gives us insight into the future of human society Yamagiwa Juichi, President of Kyoto University Fukuoka Shin-Ichi, Biologist...
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Shock of a “Nation of 50 Million People”
The Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation (RJIF) hosted a symposium in October examining the impact of a declining population on society and businesses. In 2014, the Japan Policy Council, a private think...
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