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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...