It has been a decade since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, which offers us a fresh opportunity to mourn for the lives lost and look back on where we are with the ...

In Japan, you usually obtain a driver’s license by taking lessons at a private driving school which exempts you from a practical driving test at a police facility. After finishing the course, you take ...

Finally, a book on mastering sales in Japan! I wish this book had existed 13 years ago, when I started my career in sales here. It would have made my journey a lot easier. My employer interviewing me ...

カラオケ (karaoke) is one of the greatest ways to learn the Japanese language. Karaoke forces students to "do" the whole spectrum of language: Read 歌詞 (kashi, lyrics) on the screen, listen to others sing ...

MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Director, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study) Governance structural reform is currently receiving ...

Nobuko Kobayashi co-leads the Japan consumer practice of global strategy consulting group EY-Parthenon. The views expressed in this article are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ...

This paper examines Japan's vulnerability to foreign influence and proposes legislative measures, drawing lessons from the UK, the US and Australia. The Policy Research Council of the Liberal ...

The current financial crisis has spurred a variety of policy responses around the globe. To help struggling banks, governments have announced plans to purchase bad assets, infuse troubled banks with ...

Isam Hamza was in the first group of students to graduate from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature at Cairo University, which plays a leading role in Japanese language education and ...

The launch of the H3 No. 8 rocket, Japan's large core launch vehicle, has ended in failure, unable to place the Michibiki No. 5 satellite into its int ...

Three decades not lost, but offered chance to focus on enhancing internal stability Koreans often describe Japan as a country that is "close, yet far away." This expression underscores the notion that ...