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Life with Interest Rates: Turn Benefits to Household Finances into Virtuous Economic Cycle
With the Bank of Japan working to normalize its monetary policy, yields on financial products hav...
December 4, 2024
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Semiconductor Strategy: Steadily Establish Domestic Production of Next-Generation Products
In a world where digitalization is progressing, the mass production of next-generation semiconduc...
December 2, 2024
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My Number Cards for Health Insurance: Govt Must Do Its Utmost to Prevent Confusion
The government’s coercive decision-making has led to confusion in people’s lives. It is urgent to...
December 3, 2024
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U.N. Treaty on Plastic Waste: World Must Not Give up on Agreement on Reduction Measures
Plastic waste, which does not decompose in nature, is spreading across national borders and causi...
December 5, 2024
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NTT law: Review Should Strengthen Corporate’s International Competitiveness
What kind of regulations should be imposed on NTT Corp. to enhance the international competitiven...
December 3, 2024
Yomiuri Editorial
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Japan-China Public Opinion Poll: Fake Information Might Be Worsening Chinese People’s View of Japan
Chinese social media is filled with anti-Japanese posts that are far from true. This could be the...
December 7, 2024
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Private Universities in Financial Trouble: Consider Appropriate Scale to Match Declining Birth Rate
The management environment at private universities is deteriorating due to the declining birth ra...
December 7, 2024
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Deaflympics: Deepen Understanding of Those Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing
It is important to realize a society in which everyone, regardless of whether they have a disabil...
December 6, 2024
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Intensive Deliberations at Budget Committee Meeting: Debate Security Issues in East Asia
Even though a full-fledged debate in the Diet had finally been realized following the launch of t...
December 6, 2024
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U.N. Treaty on Plastic Waste: World Must Not Give up on Agreement on Reduction Measures
Plastic waste, which does not decompose in nature, is spreading across national borders and causi...
December 5, 2024
Political Pulse
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Japan Must Prepare To Host Deaflympics in 2025; Intl Sign Language Interpreters Especially Needed
Less than a year remains until the opening of the Tokyo Deaflympics, an international sports even...
December 7, 2024
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LDP’s Minority Govt Sets Stage For ‘3rd Pole Era’; Political History Suggests Instability Will Result
The political scene has undergone drastic change after the defeat of the ruling Liberal Democrati...
November 30, 2024
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Fighting Poverty Is Harder Than Fighting Gravity; Nelson’s 1977 Observation Still Resonates Today
It was a mission so difficult that many regarded its success as a dream come true. It was the U.S...
November 23, 2024
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LDP Faces Struggle To Survive As Minority Ruling Party; Ishiba Must Woo Opposition To Get Anything Done
The Japanese people punished the Liberal Democratic Party for its political funds scandals in the...
November 16, 2024
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Revisiting Crichton’s ‘Rising Sun’ Shows A Changed World; Once Rivals, Japan and U.S. Now Face China Together
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba inaugurated his Cabinet last month, and U.S. President-elect Donald...
November 9, 2024
Insights Into The World
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A higher minimum wage doesn’t have to harm jobs
Fumio Otake / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] The administration of P...
December 6, 2024
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Dealing with Trump, and ‘a world without police’
“America is not the world’s policeman,” then U.S. President Barack Obama said in 2013. Now, as th...
November 29, 2024
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Time to break away from defense-only policy
Donald Trump has been reelected as U.S. president. I thought he was leading during the campaign, ...
November 22, 2024
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Why is an exit from deflation needed amid inflation?
This autumn, while the summer heat lingered, the political sphere of the nation began to move swi...
November 8, 2024
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Chance to Boost Economic Metabolism Finally Here
Let’s compare two economies with inflation rates of 2% and 0%. Which one is more vibrant? This is...
October 11, 2024
Cultural Viewpoints
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Beyond the Paper Screen / Homemaking on the Go Never Really Stops
It was a typical day in Oregon in mid-May: drizzles, clouds, five minutes of sunshine, drizzles a...
March 25, 2024
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Cultural Conundrums / What Follows ‘Batter Up!Pqx: Cultural Accommodation in Baseball Risk-Taking
The great thing about culture is that it’s everywhere. I am not a fan of baseball, but my spouse ...
March 10, 2024
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Beyond the Paper Screen / Navigating the Future of Work: Change, Creativity and Human Resilience
In my class, which is for students who are just starting their major in sociology and anthropology, ...
February 18, 2024
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Cultural Conundrums / Getting to Friendships: The Challenges of Context-driven Social Relationships
Friendships sustain us in life, keeping loneliness at bay and providing us with a chance to grow thr...
February 4, 2024
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A Joyful Paradox: Rethinking Play in the Modern World
By Sawa Kurotani / Special to The Japan News [posttime] JST, [postdate] I think I was about 10 ...
January 21, 2024
Outside Contributors
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Japanese Corporations, AI Startups Can Build Synergy; Both Have Qualities To Mutually Enhance Innovation
In February this year, I helped my client ClimateAI host a climate change wine tasting event at t...
November 16, 2024
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Polish Ambassador To Japan Reflects On Independence; In 1918 Poland Became Free From Russia, Other Empires
As silence fell over Europe’s trenches and battlefields on the 11th of November in 1918, World Wa...
November 13, 2024
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Orphan Girl’s Words Moved Emperor Showa to Tears; Encounter Happened on Postwar Tour Of Nation
On Aug. 14, 1945, Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan’s surrender, by th...
October 12, 2024
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Bilateral Alliance Stronger than Ever, and More Necessary than Ever
After three years in command, I am convinced the U.S.-Japan Alliance has never been more capable ...
October 7, 2024
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Ambassadors Skipping Peace Ceremony Showed Poor Form; People of Nagasaki Slighted In Pro-Israel Gesture
All six ambassadors to Japan from the Group of Seven nations, such as the United States and Brita...
October 2, 2024
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