2012/02/10 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 142: Kazuo Nishimura, "Revamp Math and Science Education"
[PDF version]Panasonic ShockIn 1986, Panasonic Corporation made headlines by hiring four non-Japanese engineers. The number of foreign employees at th...
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2011/12/02 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 138: Juichi Yamagiwa, "Science Diplomacy for Gorilla Ecotourism"
[PDF version]Ecotourism is a style of tourism that has seen steady growth since the 1970s, when the concept of "sustainable development" came into exi...
2011/10/25 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 135: Yuko Nishitani, "The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction and Japan's Move Toward Ratification"
[PDF version]Cross-border child abduction has recently attracted great attention in Japan. The problematic, incoming abduction cases arise when a Japa...
2011/07/07 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 126: Hiroto Ishida, "Human Lives and Trust"
[PDF version] The extensive damage caused by the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is prompting reconsiderations of the energy sourc...
2011/06/01 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 121: Haruo Shimada, "Building a Solar Energy Economic Zone along the Tohoku Coast -- A Reconstruction Plan for East Japan --"
[PDF version] This is my proposed reconstruction plan for east Japan in the wake of the recent disaster, the gist of which is to build a solar energy ...
2011/05/27 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 120: Isami Takeda, "Lessons Learned for Japanese Diplomacy from the Earthquake"
[PDF version] The March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake/Tsunami caused enormous damage along the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region (Iwate, Miyagi and ...
2011/04/07 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 115: Takao Komine, "Coping with the Economic Impact of the Earthquake"
[PDF version] Dealt successive blows by the massive earthquake, the tsunami and the damage to the nuclear power plant, the Japanese economy is still r...
2011/02/22 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 110: Tatsuhiko Yoshizaki, "The Need for Resource Diplomacy"
[PDF version] Just a decade or so ago, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) introduced the "price band mechanism" to keep oil pric...
2010/12/16 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 107: Yoshikazu Shimizu, "China's Domestic Politics behind the Senkaku Incident"
[PDF version] There seems to be a dispute going on within the Chinese leadership over the defense of maritime resources in the East China Sea. Since t...
2010/11/02 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 103: Masaru Kohno, "Don't Think Twice about Japanese Politics. It's All Right."
[PDF version] Japanese politics in recent years has often been described with such adjectives as volatile, confused, and unpredictable. Surely, prime ...