Articles
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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 ...
March 29, 2010
Immersed in Harmony - Sylff Chamber Music Seminar Report
The Tokyo Foundation has supported three Sylff musical institutions - the Paris Conservatoire, the Juilliard School, and the University of ...
May 24, 2010
Where the Market and Morality Intersect: A New Approach to World Poverty
In April the Tokyo Foundation was proud to present Acumen Fund CEO Jacqueline Novogratz as guest speaker at our 32nd ...
March 26, 2010
New Partnerships in Public Policy: Governments, Corporations, and NPOs
てすとてすと★The Tokyo Foundation invited Lori Forman, an American specialist in public-private partnerships, to lead a workshop on March 19 on ...
February 19, 2010
Regulatory Reform for Japan's Watershed Forests: Protecting a Public Good
Who is buying up Japan's forests? Foreign-owned businesses hoping to exploit their water resources, according to one theory. Whatever the ...
February 03, 2010
Community Revitalization in Cities: Cases from Japan and the United States
The thirty-first Tokyo Foundation Forum took up the issue of community revitalization in cities, focusing in particular on cases from ...
January 08, 2010
Vol. 25: Yakihata Turnips
Swidden agriculture, known in Japanese as yakihata ("burned field") farming, has been conducted in Japan for several centuries. In contrast ...
November 24, 2009
Vol. 24: Pan-Fired Tea (2)
Japanese owes its green color to the lack of fermentation. While smed s are far more common, there is ...
November 04, 2009
Vol. 24: Pan-Fired Tea (1)
Japanese tea owes its green color to the lack of fermentation. While steamed teas are far more common, there is ...
October 01, 2009
Vol. 23: Japanese Shorthorn Cattle
Lean and flavorful, Japanese Shorthorn beef is popular with many connoisseurs of good food. It was approved as a native ...
