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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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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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December 11, 2009

1. Two Views of Capitalism

The 2008 global financial crisis has been a testament to the failure of Adam Smith’s basic neoclassical principle: that making ...

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October 08, 2009

Introduction: Toward the “Second End of Laissez-Faire”

“Globalization” can be understood as a grand experiment to test the laissez-faire doctrine of neoclassical economics, which claims that a ...

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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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December 08, 2008

Global Financial Crisis Shows Inherent Instability of Capitalism

What can we learn from the global financial and economic crisis? A prominent Japanese economist explains how it reflects the ...

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November 25, 2008

The Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institution

Institutional research is becoming increasingly important to both scholarly development and effective policy analysis. A group of researchers of the ...

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September 30, 2008

Xenophobia Must Not Overtake Japan: A Recipe for New Economic Growth

The killing spree that took place in June 2008 in the Akihabara district of Tokyo brings into relief the problems ...

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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. ...