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February 19, 2010

Regulatory Reform for Japan's Watershed Forests: Protecting a Public Good

Who is buying up Japan's forests? Foreign-owned businesses hoping to exploit their water resources, according to one theory. Whatever the ...

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February 27, 2009

The Agricultural Cooperatives and
Farming Reform in Japan (2)

The collusive triangle of Japan’s agricultural cooperatives, Diet members defending agricultural interests, and MAFF continues to grow tighter, as shown ...

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January 20, 2009

The Agricultural Cooperatives and
Farming Reform in Japan (1)

For the past half century, Japan's powerful organization of agricultural cooperatives has used its tremendous political clout, backed by ...

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January 29, 2009

The Issues in the Farmland System

Tracing the history of how Japan's farmland system has been administered back to 1952, when the Agricultural Land Law was ...

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December 04, 2008

Let Corporations Play a Role in Reviving Japanese Agriculture

Japan’s farming population is declining as the current generation of farmers ages amid a dearth of potential successors. With more ...

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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. ...