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What is Needed for Konbini to Truly Become a Part of Social Infrastructure
Today, Japan’s convenience stores (konbini) can already be considered a form of so-called social infrastructure. However, in the face of Japan’s current social circumstances, with the decline in...
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The Value of Co-working and Co-creation: Why Is a Life Cycle Perspective...
Coexisting with Foreign Workers in Japan The “specified skilled worker” status of residence was established following the enactment of the Act for Partial Amendment of the Immigration Control and...
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Tokyo sunk: The day when Weathering with You becomes a reality
The Arakawa River overflows its banks, leaving 2.5 million people submerged in water: The residents of the five Koto, or east-of-the-river, Cities have no other choice but to evacuate. Tsuchiya...
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Typhoon Hagibis strikes the Japanese Archipelago: What happened behind the...
The Arakawa River went above the dangerous water level at multiple points. Although Typhoon Hagibis (Typhoon 19) caused enormous damage to many parts of Japan in 2019, Tokyo saw no dikes collapse and...
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Failure Analysis of Modern Japanese Population Policy
Population Stagnation and Urbanization even in the Edo Period Prof. Makino Kuniaki In contemporary Japan, the total population has begun to decline. Meanwhile, regional maldistribution is becoming more...
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Mega Sporting Events and Regional Revitalization — Host Town Initiatives and...
The Host Town Initiative of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games uses interaction with participant countries during pre-games training camps for regional revitalization. This article looks back...
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Hints from the combination of labor economics, Social Sciences of Hope and...
Genda Yuji, Professor, University of Tokyo Lessons from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis Prof. Genda Yuji More than anything else, protecting the lives and health of people is necessary to respond to...
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Building Bodies and Minds That Can Overcome COVID-19: Boosting Immune...
Hayasaka Shinya, Professor, Tokyo City University Prof. Hayasaka Shinya For some twenty years, I have conducted medical research on bathing as a lifestyle habit. That experience has taught me one...
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The President of the Japan Football Association’s battle with the...
Tashima Kohzo, President, Japan Football Association (JFA) and Vice President, Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) A message from someone who has experienced the coronavirus ―During the second half of...
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Japan and COVID-19
On June 30 and July 2, Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide stated that, “In a worst case scenario, we may enact another state of emergency.” But even if we avoid that worst case scenario, what will...
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The History of Infectious Disease in Japan: The Answer Is in History — To...
Isoda Michifumi, Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Prof. Isoda Michifumi Currently, COVID-19 is spreading so quickly that the situation changes from day to day....
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The Dividing Lines of Contemporary Japan: Political Correctness in the Social...
Ito Masaaki, Professor, Seikei University Prof. Ito Masaaki The coronavirus outbreak uncovered various forms of division and conflict in society. Not only political and economic conflicts, but...
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Udo Yumiko’s My Fair Person: What Can Be Seen from the COVID-19 LINE...
UDO Yumiko vs Prof. MIYATA Hiroaki Udo Yumiko, journalist, freelance announcer Udo Yumiko: Nice to meet you, Professor Miyata. This is my first time talking online with someone that I’ve never met in...
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The History of Infectious Disease in Japan: Origins of the World’s Best...
Isoda Michifumi, Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Prof. Isoda Michifumi The authority of the Emperor of Japan as well as the rituals at Ise Jingu shrine have...
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“Rebooting Memories”: Creating “Flow” and Inheriting Memories from Colorized...
Niwata Anju and Watanave Hidenori When visualizing the colors that photographs should have had, the impressions of “freezing” in black-and-white photographs are “rebooted,” and viewers can more...
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Three Researchers Entrusted with the Nation’s Fate: Document Novel...
Hirono Shinji, nonfiction writer Hirono Shinji, nonfiction writer He has a quick pace. Oshitani Hitoshi (61), Professor at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and the man who has contin...
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The Way Forward Is “Shorter, Cheaper, and Closer to Home”: The Tourism...
Hoshino Yoshiharu, CEO, Hoshino Resorts One of the industries most severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the tourism industry. Some small and medium-sized traditional inns have even gone...
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Infectious Disease and Civilization in the Twenty-first Century: Invisible...
Yamazaki Masakazu, Playwright and Critic Editor’s note: Professor Yamazaki Masakazu passed away on August 19, 2020. This article, written in early May 2020, is published in translation here with the...
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We Are Approaching the Limits of Having Only Policies that Preserve...
Genda Yuji, Professor, University of Tokyo Only a Slight Increase in Unemployment in April Prof. Genda Yuji When the declaration of a state of emergency was issued for all of Japan due to the spread of...
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Osaka Naomi’s BLM Activism Wins More Worldwide Respect Than Her US Open Victory
Watanabe Yuko, consultant, freelance writer Osaka Naomi walks onto the court wearing a mask with the name of Tamir Rice prior to her final match of the 2020 US Open tennis tournament on September 12,...
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