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Low levels of digitalisation are a barrier to telework in Japan
Despite its ‘high-tech’ image, Japan is in many ways relatively ‘low-tech’. While companies and governments in many countries shifted to ‘telework’ or ‘...
Japan’s triple economic shock
Japan’s economy has experienced three consecutive shocks over the past year-and-a-half. The first shock struck Japan in early 2019 when the US–China trade...
Japan fumbles through the COVID-19 crisis
On 22 March, despite the outbreak of COVID-19 in Japan, Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park was crowded with people eating, drinking and playing under the cherry blossoms...
Using Nudge as Entry Points for Evidence-Based Policy Making
The Importance of Examining the Effects in EBPM and Barriers in the Administrative Field
Survey on Standardization Activities and New Standardization Policies
Establishing standards has played an important role in developing strategies for expanding markets and improving and sustaining the competitiveness of...
What Sapiens Suggests on Rulemaking and Innovation
Rules Cannot Catch Up with the Speed of Innovation?
Increasing IT Use and Productivity
Highly-skilled Personnel Utilization for Increasing IT Use and Productivity
Japan’s growing dependence on coal
Japan’s decision to build 22 new coal-fired power plants makes it an outlier among G7 nations who are moving away from coal. Japan’s coal power plants...
Internationalising Japan’s Higher Education Sector
January and February decides the fate of Japanese students preparing for university entrance exams. This year’s high schoolers have been through a...
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