About This Site
This website contains both Japan Echo Web and the Chinese-language Yueyang Jujiao: Riben Luntan. These online journals present translations in English and Chinese of essays, commentaries, reviews, dialogues, and interviews by Japanese academics, specialists, and critics. The goal is to present a wide-ranging picture of domestic views of the conditions and the policy landscape in Japan, including the fields of diplomacy, politics, economy, society, and culture.
Japan Echo Web and Yueyang Jujiao: Riben Luntan are produced and maintained by Japan Echo Inc. for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Japan Echo Inc. is solely responsible for the content and management of this website.
The content of this website does not necessarily represent or reflect the views of the Government of Japan or the editorial board members.
The material translated for publication on this website is selected by an editorial board composed of experts in the various fields covered. The current members of the board are:
Editor in chief
Shiraishi Takashi (executive member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office; president, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization)
Editorial board members
Kojima Akira (senior research fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research)
Kondō Motohiro (professor, Nihon University)
Nariai Osamu (professor, Reitaku University)
Takahara Akio (professor, University of Tokyo)
Takashina Shūji (professor emeritus, University of Tokyo; director, Western Art Foundation)
Takenaka Harukata (professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
Watanabe Hirotaka (professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
[As of July 1, 2010]
