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September 04, 2009

Japan’s Anti-Poverty Policies in Need of Change after 50 Years of Stagnation

Ever since the high economic growth of the 1960s, Japan has inhabited the myth that all Japanese people belong to ...

September 03, 2009

A Marriage of Convenience: Filipina Domestic Workers and the Singaporean State

Last month I flew to South Korea to participate as a paper presenter and panel chair in the World Civic ...

August 26, 2009

Elections and Alternatives for Pension Reform (2)

Japan’s political parties have released their manifestos for the upcoming general election. Their platforms all offer some form of minimum-guaranteed ...

August 07, 2009

Elections and Alternatives for Pension Reform (1)

One of the most rapidly aging nations in the world, Japan expects 40% of its population to be 65 or ...

August 30

Introduction: Craft, Community, and the Cost of Global Capitalism

Kato, Hideki

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)

Abiru, Taisuke

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)

Abiru, Taisuke

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)

Tanaka, Hideaki

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

Iwai, Katsuhito

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