E-Journal
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January/February 2009 Issue |
Energy & Environment: Global approach to Long-term Challenges |
- Publisher's Note
- Welcome, President Obama
- By Noboru Hatakeyama
- TOPICS
- Panasonic to Buy Out Sanyo Japanese Financial Groups Up Global Presence Kabuki-za's Demolition Plan Triggers Controversy
- By Hiroshi OKABE (Senior business news editor, Kyodo News
- KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES
- Getting Storks Back into Wild Ambitious Attempt Proving Successful
- By Isao ADACHI (Editor, City News Desk, Jiji Press
- Cover Story Energy & Environment: Global Approach to Long-term Challenges 1
- Technological Innovation of Bioenergy
- By Hideaki YUKAWA (Ph.D., Director and Chief Researcher at the Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE))
- Cover Story Energy & Environment: Global Approach to Long-term Challenges 2
- Energy Price & Japanese Economy
- By Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Univ. of Tokyo, with a Ph. D. from Yale Univ.)
- Cover Story Energy & Environment: Global Approach to Long-term Challenges 3
- Interview with Jun Arima, Deputy Director-General for Environmental Affairs, METI Japan: Make Greater Int'l Contribution in Energy-Saving, New Energy Technologies Main Developing Nations Need Goals for GHG Cuts
- Interviewer: Hiroshi OKABE (Senior business news editor, Kyodo News)
- Cover Story Energy & Environment: Global Approach to Long-term Challenges 4
- "Price Revolution": Technology Innovation, Productivity Enhancement Vital
- By Akira KOJIMA (Advisor & senior fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER))
- Cover Story Energy & Environment: Global Approach to Long-term Challenges 5
- World's Energy System at Crossroads
- By Fatih BIROL (Chief economist and the director of the office responsible for the economic analysis of energy policy at International Energy Agency)
- Cover Story Energy & Environment: Global Approach to Long-term Challenges 6
- South Korea's Energy Strategy: Low-Carbon, Green Growth
- By Young Seok MOON (Director, Climate Change Research Department, Korea Energy Economics Institute)
- Cover Story Energy & Environment: Global Approach to Long-term Challenges 7
- Asian Energy & Environment Outlook
- By Weerawat CHANTANAKOME (Councilor on energy policy planning to the Thai Energy Ministry)
- SPECIAL ARTICLES 1
- Doha Round, Multilateralism & Future of WTO
- By Guy de JONQUIERES (Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House)
- SPECIAL ARTICLES 2
- US-Japan Relations: Japan Should Re-balance Policy Priorities
- By T.J. PEMPEL (Professor, Political Science Dept., Univ. of California, Berkeley)
- ENTREPRENEUR
- Interview with David B. Hoppe, founder and principal of Access International Law Group An American lawyer's mission: "Helping growing companies access international markets"
- By Antonio KAMIYA (Asian news editor for the English wire service of Kyodo News)
- Viewpoint 1
- Australia's New Approach to Climate Change
- By Ross STOCKALL
- ASIAN VIEW
- Significance of China's FTAs/EPAs with Asian Neighbors
- By KE Long (Senior research fellow, Economic Research Center, Fujitsu Research Institute)
- Viewpoint 2
- Reflections of a 'Ceiling Fan' Fan
- By Joel GREER (Associate attorney in the Tokyo office of White & Case LLP)
- PROMENADE
- Farmer Philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka: Humans Must Strive to Know the Unknown (3) Greening Desserts by Clay-Ball Seeding
- By Natsuko TOYODA (JEF)
- CHALLENGING REGION
- Wajima Lacquerware: Striving to Promote Japan's Leading Traditional Craft
- By Takeshi SODA (Director, Industrial Policy Division, Ishikawa Prefectural Govt.)
- JAPANESE CRAFT & ART 1
- Urushi in Japanese Culture (2) Makie Masterpieces of My Choice
- By Kazumi MUROSE (Holder of an important intangible cultural asset ("makie"))
- JAPANESE CRAFT & ART 2
- Craftwork for Prayer
- By Chigako SASAKI (Assistant manager, the Japan Traditional Craft Center)
- FINANCE
- An Uncertain Fresh Start Gov't-run Financial Institutions Streamlined
- By Katsuhiko SAKAI (Senior staff writer and deputy editor at the Economic News Division, Jiji Press)
- ECONOMIC FOCUS
- Foreign Affiliates' Business Activities in Japan As Seen from Statistics
- By Naoyuki HARAOKA (Editor-in-Chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
- Culture
- Japanese Desiring a Big Family
- By Masakazu HOSODA (Chief editor, Cultural News Section, Kyodo News)
- SPOTLIGHT Editor's postscript
- Too much is as bad as too little
- Naoyuki HARAOKA (Exective Manager, JEF)
- ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR JAPAN
- Charts January/Februry 2009
- JEF
