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The Upper House Vote and the Process of “Creative Destruction”

Curtis, Gerald L.

The Democratic Party of Japan’s setback in the July 11 House of Councillors election has produced “a political gridlock worse than anything Japan has experienced in half a century,” notes Gerald Curtis, a Tokyo Foundation senior fellow and the Burgess professor of political science at Columbia University. This is part of a process of “creative destruction,” though, that Japan must pass through to create an effective and responsive government.

Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognitions, Governance, and Institutions

Aoki, Masahiko

Topics of pressg terest sce the fancial crisis of 2008 have been a reconsideration of the role of fancial markets and the reestablishment of the fundamental relationship between fancial and nonfancial companies. The Tokyo Foundation’s Virtual Center for Advanced Studies stitution (VCASI) has been conductg research to corporations to address this issue, one recent product of the project beg this book, published by Oxford University Press. The followg are excerpts from the book’s troduction.

Introduction: Craft, Community, and the Cost of Global Capitalism

Kato, Hideki

In a global economy awash in mass-produced goods, handicraft industries are apt to be treated as relics of the past with little relevance to our lives. Tokyo Foundation President Hideki Kato challenges this view as he introduces a new series that examines a vanishing way of life and explores the implications of its disappearance for society, culture, and the environment.

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