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My Japan Syndrome
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/culture/pt2024102215404514702.html
Published: October 22, 2024 06:40
Speak English with a native speaker living in Japan and you’ll run across words unlikely to come up in a conversation in, say, the US or the UK. For example, the Japanese word conbini comes from the English convenience store, but I can’t recall ever…
Why Are There So Few Women in Science?
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/society/pt2024100712001714676.html
Published: October 7, 2024 03:00
Japan’s proportion of women in science and engineering at the university level is the lowest among OECD countries. In engineering, manufacturing, and architecture, fields in high demand by companies, only 16% of students are women, compared to the OECD…
Can “Stable Imperial Succession” Be Realized?
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/society/pt2024100212594614665.html
Published: October 2, 2024 03:59
It has been five years since the Imperial succession took place in May 2019, and the era name was changed to Reiwa. Discussions about the Emperor and the Imperial Family have attracted attention, and the ruling and opposition parties began talks in May…
Why were the courtesans painted? — After seeing “Special Exhibition: Yoshiwara”
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/culture/pt2024090602035214656.html
Published: September 5, 2024 17:03
From March 26 to May 19, 2024, the “Special Exhibition: Yoshiwara” was held at the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts. About 89,900 people visited the museum, and the catalog sold out. It was a great success. The author visited the…
Osaka Expo must not forget the community: Architecture is about preserving people’s memories for future generations
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/society/pt2024090422190914644.html
Published: September 4, 2024 13:19
Yamamoto Riken, Architect I was selected to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize (hereinafter Pritzker Prize) in March 2024, and since then I have been grateful to have received many interviews and lecture requests from both Japan and abroad. Recently,…
A Genre in Literature Where Human Nature Is Laid Bare
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/culture/pt2024090322383314626.html
Published: September 3, 2024 13:38
The act of looking at daily life Three years have passed since I opened “Nikki-ya Tsukihi,”[1] a store specializing in diary literature, in the BONUS TRACK[2] commercial area in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. I myself like reading diary books, and have been…
Spirituality of Earthquake Disasters: Living with the Dead
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/society/pt2024082916290714604.html
Published: August 29, 2024 07:29
Questions from the Great East Japan Earthquake The results of my decade-long research on the Great East Japan Earthquake[1] were published on March 11, 2024 as Ikeru Shisha no Shinsai Reiseiron—Saigai no fujori no tadanaka de (Living dead—A spirituality of…