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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...
An Urgent Need to Establish Systems for Hastening the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Author: Hyeog Ug Kwon, Faculty Fellow, RIETI
Do GDP Statistics Have a Future?
Though it has significant problems as outlined above, the GDP index is unlikely to disappear. Without GDP statistics, we would largely lose macroeconomic...
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