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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...
Startup Ecosystems and Cities
In creating environments friendly to startups, cities must reach four of the following targets
Creation of a Healthy Cyber Ecosystem
Building a social system that can sustain a healthy cyber ecosystem
The Importance of Long-Term Perspectives in Policy Making
Examples of Policy Proposals by the T20 SME Policy Task Force
Developing a Policy Regime to Support the Free Flow of Data
A proposal by the T20 Task Force on Trade, Investment and Globalization
The fallout from the Japan–South Korea trade ruckus on global trade rules
Japan and South Korea are engaged in a trade dispute generated by national security concerns. The fallout from this dispute has the potential to hurt the...
Harvesting the fruits of Abe’s diplomacy
On 20 November 2019, Shinzo Abe became Japan’s longest serving prime minister. Abe has attempted to broaden the scope of Japan’s diplomacy by taking an...
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