Special Features
Hope for Japan or U.S. Conspiracy?
The TPP issue has divided the country. How would Japan change by participating?
Diplomacy | Politics
How We Can Share Hope with Africans
Japan needs to provide support for South Sudan and Somalia
Diplomacy | Politics
Japan New Party Marked the Turning Point
Report Card on Political Parties Over the Past 20 Years – From the Miyazawa to Noda Administrations
Economy
The Japanese Economy Amid Aging and Declining Population and Fiscal Deficits
Economy
Worry About Hollowing Out for the Right Reasons – Liquidity of resources is important to quickly fill empty spaces after companies leave
Economy
Japan Should Move Quickly to Participate in the TPP Negotiations
Economy
Shifting to a Country that Increases Gross National Income (GNI) Instead of gross Domestic Product (GDP)
The pressing issue is establishing a virtuous circle in which profits made overseas flow back to Japan to increase domestic employment and income and boost consumption.
Science | Technology
Information Security Measures under Pressure of Revision
Society | Culture
Japanese Wines You Should Try
Economy
Determined to Build a World After Steve Jobs
“He has fundamentally changed our society’s systems.”
The key player in development work for i-mode probes into the significance of the revolution sparked by Apple Inc., the fusion of cell phones and the Internet. What is in store for the IT society now that Steve Jobs has passed away?
Society | Culture
Turning Earth’s History into Parks: Revitalizing Regional Communities with Geoparks Geology is a New Tourism Resource
Geoparks, natural heritage sites seen from an earth science perspective, have been garnering attention. There are now five regions certified as World Geoparks in Japan, and these are expected to function as a new means of attracting tourists.
Society | Culture
How J-pop Could Conquer the Asian Market
Korean pop (K-pop) music is booming in Asia. Is there a way for the continually shrinking Japanese music business to survive? Kato Kimitaka of major Japanese record label Universal Music speaks about his overseas strategy.
Society | Culture
Ue wo Muite Arukou (Sukiyaki)
Society | Culture
[Series: Interview] “Food and Life” — For humans to become people
Series 1: The importance of eating through the mouth — The essence common to preparing food and nursing is in drawing out the strength to live.
Society | Culture
[Series: Interview] “Food and Life” — For humans to become people
Series, No. 1: Food is not fuel — Seeing food merely in terms of calories and nutrients causes us to lose sight of the essence of food.
Society | Culture
[Series: Interview] “Food and Life” — For humans to become people (Foreword)
Humans have to eat every day in order to live.
But people in our country today seem to neglect the importance of food. Humans can never be people if they do this. It hinders them from developing a robust perspective that ultimately improves life.
How can we acquire an essential view of life through food?
Cooking expert Tatsumi Yoshiko interviewed four experts.
I took part in a symposium held in Sendai on October 31, 2011. Sponsored by the Japan Center for Economic Research, it was called “Envisaging Specific Visions for the Reconstruction of the Tohoku Region.” Murai Yoshihiro, governor of Miyagi Prefecture, delivered a keynote speech in the symposium, discussing his view on the reconstruction. The symposium got me thinking about reconstruction from the devastation left in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
