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The Association of Shinto Shrines and the G7 Summit
shinto_shrine.jpg Home Page News Page When the leaders of G7 countries descend on Japan later this week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken the opportunity to invite them to visit Ise Shrine as well....
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Can Immigration Solve Japan's Population Problem?
japan_growth.jpg Home Page News Page Japan is experiencing a serious demographic crunch. About 27 percent of the Japanese population is over the age of 65 and there are 1.4 million fewer people today...
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Evaluating Japan's Evolving Disaster Response
japan_mt_fuji.jpg Home Page News Page On the night of 14 April 2016, five years after the devastating 3/11 triple disaster, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the Kumamoto region on the Japanese island...
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HA/DR Lessons from Japan's Private Sector Expertise
public_private_partnership.jpg Home Page News Page Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) are on the rise as new forms of security cooperation in the Asia Pacific. The Japanese government...
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Low Voter Turnout could Worry Japan's LDP
japan_politics_2.jpg Home Page News Page On 10 July, Japan will hold its upper house elections with half of its seats to be contested. This will be the first time that 18 and 19 year-old citizens will...
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In Japan, Inbound Tourists Have Eclipsed Outbound Tourists
japan_mt_fuji.jpg Home Page News Page Japan registered a travel surplus of about US$10.6 billion in 2015, suggesting its growing competitiveness as an exporter of tourism. According to the Japan...
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Japan's Abe Reaches for More Arrows
bullseye_3.jpg Home Page News Page Prime Minister Abe is attempting to revitalise the Japanese economy after two decades of stagnant growth. In December 2012, he launched the reform program that became...
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Being Smart about Dealing with Disaster in Japan
japan_nuclear.jpg Home Page News Page As a country prone to natural disasters, especially earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons, Japan has a long history of disaster education. However, what does Japan’s...
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How to Successfully Wield a Supermajority
japan_votes.jpg Home Page News Page Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, have won 70 of the 121 seats up for grabs in the upper house...
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Investors Anticipate Fiscal and Monetary Stimulus from Japan
japan_piggy_bank.jpg Home Page News Page The US dollar is broadly mixed against the major currencies. The Swiss franc's 0.25% gain puts it at the top of the board, after sterling's earlier gains were...
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Japan's Military 'Gender Perspective'
japan_army.jpg Home Page News Page On 4 November 2014, Lieutenant-Colonel Chizu Kurita of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force became the first Japanese military officer to be attached to North Atlantic...
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We're Japan, and We're Here to Help
japan_mt_fuji.jpg Home Page News Page Foreign aid is a key instrument of international engagement in Japan’s foreign policy toolkit. Although Tokyo is no longer the world’s top aid donor that it once...
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You Say You Want a Constitution (Change)
japan_politics.jpg Home Page News Page Following the 10 July upper house elections the Abe government now has the two-thirds majority in both houses of the Diet necessary to pass constitutional...
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Japan Gender Gap Scorecard
gender.jpg Home Page News Page Women in Japan voted and stood for office for the first time on 10 April 1946. It was the country’s first postwar election and the first election after the Japanese...
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Abe Delivers Unimpressive, but Needed, Fiscal Policy
japan_politics.jpg Home Page News Page The Japanese government is delivering the other half of its fiscal policy today. Earlier, Abe decided to postpone the sales tax hike for the second time. Today,...
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Japan's GDP Disappoints
japan_growth.jpg Home Page News Page The US dollar closed the pre-weekend session well off its lows that were seen in response to the disappointing retail sales report. It has been unable to sustain...
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Japan's Government Accelerates Market-Oriented Agricultural Reforms
japan_agriculture.jpg Home Page News Page In 2015, the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spearheaded a series of unprecedented amendments to the 1947 Agricultural Cooperative Law. These...
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Japan's Double Economic Whammy
japan_growth.jpg Home Page News Page Background<p>In February 2016, the Bank of Japan (BOJ), in order to reach a 2% inflation target, initiated a negative interest rate policy by increasing...
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Encouraging Japanese Board of Director Diversity
boardroom.jpg Home Page News Page The current potential growth rate of the Japanese economy is estimated to be less than 0.5 percent. Given Japan’s rapidly declining working-age population, it will be...
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Mixed Results in the Rest of Asia over the BOJ's Policy Decisions
japan_piggy_bank.jpg Home Page News Page Like other central banks in advanced countries, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) adopted an unconventional monetary policy after the 2007–2009 global financial crisis...
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