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July 21, 2010

International Education in the Era of Globalization – The Case of Japan

An Administrators Meeting of the Tokyo Foundation’s world-scale Sylff endowment program will be held in Japan in November, to be ...

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April 27, 2009

Journey of the Soul to Nurture Future Leaders

Future leaders of Asia gathered in Orissa, India, to share experiences and ideas on problems facing Asia. Muhammad Ilham from ...

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April 08, 2009

Charity Alone Is Not the Answer to Poverty:
The New Paradigm of the Acumen Fund


The Tokyo Foundation has entered into a partnership with the Acumen Fund and is supporting its program to nurture future ...

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December 03, 2008

Sylff Fellows Volunteer to Help China Earthquake Victims

Two teams of Chinese Sylff fellows traveled to areas most seriously affected by the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan, visiting ...

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January 09, 2009

The Tokyo Foundation Initiates Partnership with Acumen Fund

Established in 2001 in New York, Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to the ...

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September 30, 2008

Supporting Victims of the Great Sichuan Earthquake

In view of the gravity of the situation, the Tokyo Foundation called out to our scholarship recipients (called SYLFF fellows) ...

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September 30, 2008

Human Resource Development as the Key to the Local Governance

To prepare local government officials in Japan for governing decentralization, the Tokyo Foundation has offered a professional training program for ...

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September 30, 2008

A New Dimension in Japanese Public Diplomacy

Spurred by the momentum of China's Confucius Institute, the Japanese government is pressed to rebuild its overseas language education program ...

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September 30, 2008

Globalization Strategies at Universities in Scandinavia

Akiko Matsunobu takes the opportunity of a recent trip to the University of Oslo and Uppsala University to discuss developments ...

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August 30

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 26

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 20

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

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 5

7. The Wicksellian Theory of Disequilibrium Cumulative Process

Wicksell's starting point was an attempt to reformulate the quantity theory of money from the neoclassical perspective. ...