What should the real role of PTAs be?

New committee and executive members for parent-teacher associations have been decided, and the new administrations have begun. Every year, a surge of...

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Learning from the debate on abdication law

In the near future, the public will witness the abdication of an emperor for the first time in about 200 years, after a special measures law to enable...

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Impact of U.S. withdrawal from Paris accord

U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw his country from the Paris Agreement on June 1. As nations continue to craft rules for...

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10 15.06.2017

Real issue of Kake is a battle over regulation

Kihei Maekawa, a former administrative vice minister at the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry, appeared at a press...

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6 14.06.2017

Wrestling with waiting lists for day care

By the end of June at the earliest, the government plans to announce a new policy addressing the problem of children on waiting lists to enter day...

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10 07.06.2017

Can ‘children’s insurance’ offer a solution?

Can “children’s insurance,” a mechanism for providing financial resources for child-rearing, prove an effective countermeasure to the low...

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10 31.05.2017

How can overworked teachers be helped?

A survey by the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry revealed that teachers at public elementary and junior high schools work...

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20 29.05.2017

Trump’s firing of FBI director leads to worsening ‘Russia-gate’ scandal

It is increasingly suspected that Russia colluded with then candidate Donald Trump’s campaign in the U.S. presidential election last year. It is...

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6 20.05.2017

Providing better care for dementia patients

The International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International for dementia patients, their families and dementia researchers was held at the end...

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7 18.05.2017

Behind the Scenes / Work style reforms a chance to boost productivity

Improving Japan’s labor productivity (see below), which is low even by international standards, is one of the key elements of the “work style...

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10 18.05.2017

How to support families of troubled children

There have been many incidents involving parents who kill their children who have intellectual disabilities, mental disorders or are reclusive due to...

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10 16.05.2017

Persistently low population must be fixed

Kohei Komamura / Keio University Professor With a chronically low birth rate and an aging and decreasing population, what will become of Japan’s...

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7 11.05.2017

Tweets help ascertain state after disasters

Kentaro Torisawa / Director General Kiyonori Otake / Executive Researcher Data-driven Intelligent System Research Center, NICT During the...

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10 11.05.2017

INSIGHTS into the WORLD / A normative approach to preventing cyberwarfare

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A series of episodes in recent years — including Russia’s cyber interventions to skew the United States’ 2016 presidential...

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8 02.05.2017

Thoughts 1 year after Kumamoto Earthquake

One year has passed since the Kumamoto Earthquake. After two temblors struck the region, each hitting the maximum of 7 on the Japanese seismic...

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5 01.05.2017

‘What we published was entirely true’

Martin Baron / Executive editor of The Washington Post The world has witnessed a relentless war between U.S. President Donald Trump and the media....

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5 27.04.2017

Behind the Scenes / China-N. Korea ‘blood friendship’ fades

What will China do if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration uses military force to stop North Korea from nuclear and missile development?...

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10 26.04.2017

INSIGHTS into the WORLD / History tells us more than just who to blame

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been high, particularly since Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president in January. The United States had...

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10 24.04.2017

Will U.S. shift in global warming affect world?

On March 28, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to begin a comprehensive review of U.S. measures against...

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10 19.04.2017

What rampant illegal reemployment means

The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry announced on March 30 the final report of its internal investigation into the...

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10 15.04.2017

U.S. attack on Syria raises questions

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump carried out a missile attack on Syria after determining that the administration of Syrian...

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30 11.04.2017

How to respond to N. Korea’s missile threat

North Korea has launched ballistic missiles for the second time this year. North Korean state media reported that they were test-launches conducted...

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40 22.03.2017

Should male childcare workers’ roles be limited?

Controversy has arisen over whether male childcare workers at nursery facilities should be in charge of changing the clothes or diapers of girls....

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30 20.03.2017

Are children’s voices a public nuisance?

Complaints from residents that children’s voices are overly loud are causing headaches for local childcare facilities and municipalities. A...

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50 11.03.2017

How do you assess the Abe-Trump meeting?

The first meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump affirmed a further strengthening of the Japan-U.S. alliance and...

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100 23.02.2017

Japan’s critically late start in AI research

Masashi Sugiyama / First director of the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project The world is competing fiercely in artificial intelligence...

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40 22.02.2017

Top court’s decision on ‘right to be forgotten’

The Supreme Court made a decision on Jan. 31 to dismiss a man’s request to have Google ordered to delete internet search results related to news...

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60 18.02.2017

Challenges remain with ‘rescue missions’

Over two months have gone by since the Ground Self-Defense Force personnel deployed in South Sudan as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation were...

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60 15.02.2017

It’s time to rethink radiation standards set by DPJ administration after quake

Radioactivity standards that demand there be zero risk of harm to human health need to be revised based on scientific data. A bill to revise the...

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50 09.02.2017

Building a society that gives youth hope

The number of births dropped below 1 million for the first time last year. The roots of the structural problems in Japanese society, such as the...

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90 08.02.2017

From what age should people be called elderly?

The Japan Gerontological Society and the Japan Geriatrics Society have proposed that the age from which people are considered elderly be raised...

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50 02.02.2017

Sims: Tailor fiscal expansion to inflation

Christopher Sims / Nobel laureate in economics and professor at Princeton University Christopher Sims, a Nobel laureate in economics and a...

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100 01.02.2017

Quake-resistant housing vital for saving lives

The Great Hanshin Earthquake of January 1995 destroyed or severely damaged about 250,000 houses and residential buildings. About 90 percent of the...

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60 31.01.2017

Should childcare leave be extended?

A bill to revise the childcare and family care leave law so that parents can take time off to care for a child until the age of 2 will soon be...

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70 26.01.2017

Giving adult ‘hikikomori’ a steady chance

Adult hikikomori are grown-ups who have withdrawn from social life. The substantial number of adults in their 30s and 40s who have shut themselves...

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100 25.01.2017

How can murders by carers be prevented?

A study conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun in 2016 found there had been 179 cases of murder or murder-suicide related to nursing care for the elderly...

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100 21.01.2017

Should we restore legal apprentice stipends?

The creation of a new benefit system for legal apprentices was included in the budget draft approved by the Cabinet on Dec. 22, 2016. The system...

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40 15.01.2017

Lessons taken from Sagamihara mass murder

In response to the mass murder that occurred at the Tsukui Yamayuri-en care facility for people with intellectual disabilities in Sagamihara, a...

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80 12.01.2017

Trump’s ‘America first’ remains a mystery

Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post’s editorial page editor, spoke with The Yomiuri Shimbun, on Dec. 23, 2016, about how the United States could...

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70 08.01.2017

Questions for 2017 / Essence of U.S. diplomacy won’t change

This is the fifth and final installment of an interview series with leading intellectual figures around the world. The following is excerpted from...

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40 08.01.2017

Ways to extend ‘healthy life expectancy’

As the nation’s population continues to age, awareness of health issues is important in order to extend “healthy life expectancy” — the...

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30 08.01.2017

Questions for 2017 / Can AI surpass human intelligence?

This is the fourth installment of an interview series with leading intellectual figures around the world. The following is excerpted from an...

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100 07.01.2017

Questions for 2017 / Tensions between China, U.S. a point of concern

This is the third installment of an interview series with leading intellectual figures around the world. The following is excerpted from an...

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60 06.01.2017

Questions for 2017 / Switch to inclusive global growth

This is the second installment of an interview series with leading intellectual figures around the world. The following is excerpted from an...

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80 05.01.2017

Kissinger: Trump has a unique opportunity

Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of state and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his contributions to peacemaking in Vietnam, spoke with The...

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100 04.01.2017

Questions for 2017 / Trump voters suffer from problems he may not solve

As 2017 begins with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the world appears to be at a crossroads. How will...

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40 03.01.2017

How will intern program for foreigners change?

New legislation was passed in the Diet on Nov. 18, aiming to strengthen protections for foreign interns visiting Japan under the Technical Intern...

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60 28.12.2016

Behind the Scenes / Website puts search tactics in spotlight

WELQ, a popular website that compiles medical information, has been forced to suspend its activities amid a blazing controversy over its content....

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80 22.12.2016

When do democracy and populism diverge?

More and more people are expressing concern about the drawbacks of democracy. Figures such as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have used populism...

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70 06.12.2016

Experiencing life as a social recluse

Many people suffer from a state of social withdrawal in which they do not go to school or work or interact with people outside their families. On...

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