Articles
August 28, 2010
Introduction: Craft, Community, and the Cost of Global Capitalism
In a global economy awash in mass-produced goods, handicraft industries are apt to be treated as relics of the past ...
August 18, 2010
Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (2)
In the second half of this two-part series, the author explores the complex interrelationship between nuclear energy cooperation and nuclear ...
August 17, 2010
Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (1)
With energy demand soaring and global temperatures rising, nuclear power is poised to make a dramatic worldwide comeback. Japanese industry ...
August 10, 2010
Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (3)
Because Japan's postal savings system plays a major role in financing government programs, proposed changes to the privatization plan adopted ...
August 04, 2010
The Upper House Vote and the Process of “Creative Destruction”
The Democratic Party of Japan’s setback in the July 11 House of Councillors election has produced “a political gridlock worse ...
August 02, 2010
The Changing Face of the Obama Administration at Home and Abroad (3)
In the final installment of this three-part series, I will look at the achievements and assessments of the Obama administration’s ...
July 14, 2010
Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognitions, Governance, and Institutions
Topics of pressg terest sce the fancial crisis of 2008 have been a reconsideration of the role of fancial markets ...
July 07, 2010
Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (2)
Because of the major role Japan's postal savings program has played in financing government programs, the postal reform bill submitted ...
June 23, 2010
Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (1)
Japan's postal system does much more than deliver the mail. Its savings program collects vast sums that help finance government ...
June 18, 2010
The Changing Face of the Obama Administration at Home and Abroad (2)
On the domestic policy front, nearly a year and a half in office has been enough to show President Obama ...
