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Natsume Soseki’s Cat
Natsume Soseki (1867 to 1916) Born in Tokyo. Following spells teaching in Matsuyama and Kumamoto, studied in Britain. On his return, took up teaching post at his alma mater, the Tokyo Imperial...
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Cats and Japanese People
Cats have lived alongside people for more than ten thousand years. A comfortable society for cats is a comfortable society for human beings. This, they say, is the age of cats. Each year, the number of...
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Remembering Ooka Makoto The Poet from Mount Fuji
Yamazaki Masakazu, playwright I didn’t want to come from Mount Fuji,” Ooka Makoto once recollected matter-of-factly. But even as he said the words, he didn’t look particularly unhappy at the idea....
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Japanese “Armitage-Nye Report” Launched
With the arrival of the Trump administration came a sense of bewilderment, in the face of a new style of diplomacy unlike anything that had gone before. Nonetheless, we need to avoid doing anything...
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New Population Projection for Japan
The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS) releases population projections for Japan every five years. The latest projections were released in April 2017, and these will...
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Japan and the European migrant crisis: Not “someone else’s problem”
The difference between the tone of Japan’s internal debate and the global debate Watanabe Hirotaka, Director, Institute for International Relations, Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesUniversity The...
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Vacant Houses are Undermining Tokyo Reconsider the Relaxation of City...
New Real Estate Loans Are Exceeding Those During the Bubble Economy, Reaching New Record Highs Nozawa Chie, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering Toyo University As an city planning researcher...
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Dialogue: Is Artificial Intelligence Versus Humans Reflected in Shogi as Well...
Sakai Kuniyoshi Habu Yoshiharu AI Cuts a Path for New Shogi Moves Habu Yoshiharu: AI (artificial intelligence) has been a popular conversation topic over the last few years. I think the...
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Kagaku-TsushinIsland Signs: The Sign Language of Miyakubo in Ehime Prefecture
Yano Uiko Matsuoka Kazumi Yano Uiko, one of this article’s two authors, comes from Miyakubo Town, which is a part of Imabari City in Ehime Prefecture. The town is located on the island of Oshima,...
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Society and Science on iPS Cells― Think about the next decade with a focus on...
In 2006, a research team led by Professor Yamanaka Shinya at Kyoto University reported that it had generated iPS cells in mice. The following year, the team reported that iPS cells could be generated...
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The Topic of Japan Viewed from Oxford
How do people at universities overseas view Japan? What do those universities teach students about Japan? I would like to answer these questions in this special feature of Chuokoron based on my own...
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A Long-Lived, Unamended Constitution
The Diet is the main battlefield for debate on amending the Constitution. (Photo is the National Diet Building located in Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) As the debate in Japan over constitutional...
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Dialogue: The fundamental bases for the Japanese people To the fundamental...
Sannai-Maruyama site, archaeological site in Aomori Prefecture Editorial staff: This special feature discusses research on the lives of ancient people beyond the boundaries of study areas, with a...
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Avoiding the Thucydides Trap Through Interdependence Between the United...
Kojima Akira, Member, Board of Trustees, and Adjunct Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); Trustee, Chairman of the World Trade Center Tokyo The United States, China and...
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A Collection of Modern French Paintings on a Return Visit to Europe —...
It is well known that there are outstanding works of fine art in Japan, this island nation in the Far East, but only a few experts know that there are actually several collections of Western art in...
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Inbound Tourism and Japanese People ― Issues related to the increase in...
The influx of foreign tourists into Japan reminds one sociologist of American soldiers stationed in Japan immediately after the Second World War. What does he think of the current tourism boom? In this...
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What Impresses Foreign Tourists When They Come to Japan?― Explaining Japanese...
Photo: Courtesy of the Japan Guide Association As an tour guide-interpreter, Hagimura Masayo sometimes spends as long as two weeks traveling around the whole of Japan with foreign visitors, so no-one...
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The “Johnny’s” Entertainers Omnipresent on Japanese TV: Postwar Media and the...
Introduction What do Japanese people think of when they hear the name Johnnies? Perhaps pop groups such as SMAP or Arashi that belong to the Johnny & Associates talent agency? Or perhaps the title...
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EV Revolution to Bring Drastic Change to Auto Industry
Toyota’s EV concept car (TOYOTA Concept-i) Executive Vice President Didier Leroy of Toyota Motor said, “We have no doubt that EVs will be one of the key solutions in the near future. That is why we...
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RIKEN: The 100th Anniversary of a Major Research Organization of Japan ― The...
Yamane Kazuma, nonfiction writer December 1, 2016. On this day, a press conference took place in a Fukuoka city hotel that deserves to go down in the history of science in Japan. The day before, at the...
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