Articles & News
August 20, 2018
Tax Policy Responses to “Work-Style Reform”
Digital platforms are making it easy for companies to access the services of independent contractors and freelancers, often on a ...
August 15, 2018
How to Solve Intergenerational Problems
The Increasing Importance of Policies That Nurture Altruism
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the level of intergenerational altruism was low, but with economic growth and the accumulation of ...
August 14, 2018
Japan since the Meiji Restoration (2)
Mass Media and Democracy in Prewar and Postwar Japan
The articles in this series were compiled from contributions by members of the Political and Diplomatic Review project to the ...
August 13, 2018
Trump, China, and Trade
Washington’s sense of competition with Beijing appears likely to endure. And so long as that is the case, geopolitics seems ...
July 24, 2018
Japan since the Meiji Restoration (1)
Lessons from Diplomatic and Constitutional History
The hybrid nature of Japan’s constitutional framework has created gaps between the letter of the law and its application, enabling ...
July 11, 2018
An Assessment of Collaboration between the Business and Social Sectors
Both companies and nonprofits must discard the notion that the government sector is responsible for public welfare. They need to ...
June 20, 2018
Balancing Political Leadership and Bureaucratic Autonomy
Scandals Highlight the Need for a Correction
After decades of reform aimed at strengthening the power of the prime minister and bringing the bureaucracy to heel, a ...
June 14, 2018
Strategies for Taxing the Digital Economy
As tensions mount over tax avoidance by US-based multinational tech giants, resident tax expert Shigeki Morinobu reports on multilateral efforts ...
June 12, 2018
View from the Social Sector
Engaging with Businesses for Sustainability
The best hope for seriously tackling global problems like environmental degradation and serious labor and human-rights abuses is the formation ...
May 15, 2018
The National Defense Strategy and the Indo-Pacific
"The NDS identifies the primary problem as a 'long-term strategic competition' with China and Russia and the erosion of US ...
