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April 24, 2009

Contemporary World Politics and China’s Role

Professor Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, spent roughly one month in Japan as ...

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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

China's Post-Olympics Economy

Will the Chinese economy lose steam after the Beijing Olympics? The author visited China's economic hub of Shanghai just before ...

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September 30, 2008

Climate Change Response at a Crossroads

CER-based trading of emissions rights has long-term implications for global political and economic power distribution and raises ethical questions about ...

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September 30, 2008

Does Cash Dependence Bring Happiness?

Money has caused us to abandon or delegate many tasks that we used to perform ourselves. What happened to the ...

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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. ...