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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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Japanese Companies’ Actions Regarding the Major Trends of the New Industrial...
KOJIMA Akira, Chairman of World Trade Center Tokyo, Inc., Member, Board of Trustees of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Displays of books entitled Industrie 4.0, IoT Revolution, New...
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Special report/Is it “time to sell” in Japan? – Shedding light on what...
Yamamoto Kozo, a member of the House of Representatives, of the Liberal Democratic Party, has been involved with the drafting of Abenomics initiatives, advocating, if nothing else, large-scale monetary...
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From the Subaru Telescope to TMT
KASHIKAWA Nobunari, Associate Professor, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan It has been fifteen years since the Subaru Telescope began operation. It stands as a symbol of the technology on...
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Yahoo’s Strategy to Compete with Google in JapanWorld-class competition, A...
As the search engine giant, Google has a dominant market presence in Internet advertising by a significant margin. But Google doesn’t have a monopoly in every market. In Asia, in particular, local...
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Google vs. Local Competitors in JapanAny chance for the local competitors to...
According to Sano Kyuuichirou, Director, Information Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), “We share a critical feeling that...
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Interview:Sowing the Seeds for Making the World Nuclear-FreeFor Passing on...
The NPT Conference and Visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki Kumagai Shinichiro: The coming summer will be the seventieth since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The...
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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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Soros’ Warning of a Hard Landing in China and Tremendous Adjustments to Its...
KOJIMA Akira, Chairman of World Trade Center Tokyo, Inc., Member, Board of Trustees of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies A hard landing is practically unavoidable,” claimed George...
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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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Is Relocation to Regional Cities the Equivalent of Abandoning Old people in...
Significance of Long-term Care Insurance and the Year 2025 Problem Kato Hisakazu, Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University Launched in April 2000, the Long-Term Care...
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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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Delicious DrinksThe Mellow World of Japanese Whisky
Arrival on the Black Ships TSUCHIYA Mamoru, Whisky writer, representative of the Japan Whisky Research Centre When did the Japanese relationship with whisky begin? Who was the first Japanese to drink...
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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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