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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...