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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 ...
July 07, 2010
Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (2)
Because of the major role Japan's postal savings program has played in financing government programs, the postal reform bill submitted ...
June 23, 2010
Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (1)
Japan's postal system does much more than deliver the mail. Its savings program collects vast sums that help finance government ...
January 08, 2010
Rebuilding Japanese Politics by Establishing Self-governance in Political Parties: (2) A Challenge for the New Administration
In part two of this article, we will present reform proposals for rebuilding Japanese politics, bearing in mind the shortcomings ...
October 16, 2009
Rebuilding Japanese Politics by Establishing Self-governance in Political Parties: (1) A Challenge for the New Administration
One of the motivations of those who voted for a change of government at the recent general election was a ...
July 24, 2009
A Watershed Election and Its Policy Implications
Prime Minister so's decision to dissolve the lower house nd cll generl in the fce of rock-bottom public ...
June 11, 2009
Connecting Japan and the Transatlantic Community
Fresh from two months in Brussels as the first recipient of the GMF-Tokyo Foundation Fellowship, the author discusses “the rise ...
June 11, 2009
Rejecting High-Risk Coexistence with North Korea
On May 25 this year, North Korea conducted its second nuclear test. It is now clear that Pyongyang has taken ...
May 08, 2009
Long-term Outlook for Japan's Foreign and Security Policies
Whatever diplomatic and security challenges the next two or three decades may bring, Japan will confront them as an economic ...
April 17, 2009
Change Ahead for Japan's Security Policy
The glacial pace of policy change in Tokyo is nowhere more evident than in the area of defense. But an ...
