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February 23, 2009
Japan's Middle-Power Diplomacy
Soeya Yoshihide, a respected Keio University professor specializing in Japanese and Asia-Pacific political and security issues, recently delivered a presentation ...
February 23, 2009
POLICY PROPOSAL: Japan's New Security Strategy: Multilayered and Cooperative Security Strategy
Amid dramatic changes in the security environment surrounding Japan since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Tokyo Foundation ...
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 ...
December 04, 2008
Enhancing Parliamentary Functionality (Symposium Report 4)
The last two sessions of the symposium discussed ways to improve parliamentary deliberation and the relationships between parliamentary houses and ...
December 04, 2008
Risk Communication in Relation to Food
How should the government respond to public anxiety about the safety of food? The process by which the British Food ...
January 29, 2009
The Bureaucratic Role and Party Governance (Symposium Report 3)
The first two sessions of the symposium discussed the relationship between legislators and bureaucrats and party governance issues. Panelists including ...
February 23, 2009
The Pros and Cons of Japan's Rice Acreage-Reduction Policy
Food security cannot be achieved without farmland. Yet the policy of trimming rice production by reducing rice acreage, which aims ...
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
The Perilous Decline of Japanese Agriculture
Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio has dropped below 40%, and global food price rises are beginning to squeeze household finances. Recent ...
September 30, 2008
The Perilous Decline of Japanese Agriculture
Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio has dropped below 40%, and global food price rises are beginning to squeeze household finances. Recent ...
