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Strengthening Asset Management / Reforms Necessary to Ensure More People Benefit from System
Asset management is an increasingly important issue in terms of securing funds for retirement and other purposes. Asset management companies and pensi...
October 22, 2023
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Extraordinary Diet Session: Concerns Remain regarding Coordination between Government, Ruling Parties
An extraordinary Diet session has been convened. It is hoped that the government and the ruling and opposition parties will hold fruitful discussions ...
October 21, 2023
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Japanese Employee Held: Unexplained Arrests in China Belie Assertions of ‘Rule of Law’
Taking a person into custody and attempting to punish them without specifying what they allegedly did to violate the law: It is hard to describe such ...
October 21, 2023
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Bear-Inflicted Damage: Measures Needed to Keep Bears away from Human Habitations
There has been a recent spate of cases across the country in which bears have appeared in human territory and inflicted damage. Measures must be intro...
October 20, 2023
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Non-Regular Civil Servants: Administrative Agencies Should Enlarge Path to Regular Employment
While the central government demands private enterprises to improve the treatment of non-regular workers and make them regular employees, it certainly...
October 20, 2023
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China-Russia Summit: Close Relationship Disrupts Global Stability
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Beijing to demonstrate their close relationship. It is obvious that any att...
October 19, 2023
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Vote-Value Disparities: It’s Time to Fundamentally Rethink Election System for Upper House
Even though the judiciary has handed down a ruling of constitutionality, the basic problems facing the election system have not been resolved. Is the ...
October 19, 2023
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Sexual Crimes against Children: System to Prevent Harm Must be Created Swiftly
There has been a spate of incidents in which children have been sexually victimized at schools and cram schools. Such despicable crimes, which take ad...
October 18, 2023
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Postal Savings Rights Lost: Protecting People’s Property Must be the First Priority
It is so unreasonable that postal savings deposited in the past could disappear without depositors knowing about it. The Internal Affairs and Communic...
October 18, 2023
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Digital administrative reform / Is the government cloud concept truly ready to be implemented?
It is necessary to carefully examine what areas of administrative services are appropriate for digitization and what matters should be addressed by pu...
October 17, 2023
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Disasters amid civil war / Failure to govern heightens misery among the people
In countries where the government is not functioning due to civil war or other causes, the damage from disasters and the pain felt by the people are g...
October 17, 2023
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Japan’s Research Capabilities / Put a Brake on Serious, Long-Term Decline
It has long been said that Japan’s research and development capabilities are declining. The government must make efforts to rebuild basic research cap...
October 16, 2023
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Israel / Do Everything Possible to Avoid Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Operations that attack civilians or put residents in situations where they have no water or food violate international law. Israel should carefully ha...
October 16, 2023
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Examination of Reserve Funds: Careless Spending Must Be Stopped
Sloppy management of the government’s enormous reserve funds allocated for measures against COVID-19 has come to light. If the government does not ret...
October 15, 2023
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Newspaper Week: Trustworthy Reportage Vital in Age of Fake Information
Newspaper Week has begun. The world is in chaos and false information burgeons online. The mission of newspapers is to accurately report the facts: Th...
October 15, 2023
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