Articles
-query word : Globalization
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
