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  • Keep Up Suitable Policies to Escape from Deflation

    “The tide has turned.”

    More and more people seem to believe this as they look at the curr...

    May 24, 2024

  • What Place Is There for Religion in a Democracy?

    Young Japanese people’s interest in thinking and religion is said to have been declining in recen...

    May 10, 2024

  • Transform Diet into Forum for Real Debate on Policy

    Thirty years have passed since major political reforms took place in Japan in 1994, culminating i...

    May 3, 2024

  • Bigger Challenges Awaiting New Indonesia Leader

    Indonesia’s Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has coasted to an overwhelming victory in his count...

    April 12, 2024

  • International Community Has Much to Learn from 10/7 Fiasco

    On Sept. 29, 2023, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said, “[t]he Middle East r...

    April 5, 2024

  • ASEAN, Japan Should Grow Together as Equals

    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is now thriving as the core of world economic ...

    March 22, 2024

  • 2-State Solution Needed to End Conflict in Gaza

    Historically, war has been defined as an armed conflict that is generally fought between sovereign s...

    March 8, 2024

  • Japan’s Global Standing Rests on More than GDP

    Japan has slipped below Germany and is now the world’s fourth-largest economy in dollar terms, accor...

    March 1, 2024

  • ‘Greedy Work’ Helps Preserve Gender Income Gap

    According to Harvard University Prof. Claudia Goldin, who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics, “gr...

    February 23, 2024

  • A Most Important American Election Looms in 2024

    It is cliche to say that the world stands at a crossroads and that this year will be critical in det...

    February 9, 2024

  • Stagnation Can Only Be Overcome If We All Chip In

    Though we’ve ushered in a New Year, it seems we’ve not swept away the sense of stagnation in Japan. ...

    February 2, 2024

  • Donation Culture Helps Unlock Research Discoveries

    The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Dr. Katalin Kariko and Dr. Dre...

    December 29, 2023

  • Japan Needs to Fix Real Causes of Yen Slump

    The yen has been undergoing an unprecedented decline. Not only has the yen’s nominal exchange rate ...

    December 8, 2023

  • G7 Rushes to De-Risk to Protect Sensitive Tech

    This year has already become an epoch-making one globally in terms of revving up economic security. ...

    November 24, 2023

  • Japan’s Modernization Fitting Development Model

    Approximately two-thirds of the world is composed of developing countries. Nations that are well-off...

    November 10, 2023

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