E-Journal
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March/April 2009 Issue |
Global Aging:Challenge & Opportunity |
- Publisher's Note
- When Will This Crisis Hit Bottom?
- By Noboru Hatakeyama
- READERS' COLUMN
- Japanese People Should Learn from Filipinos
- By Miro KASAI
- TOPICS
- Record Budgetary Spending in Fiscal 2009/Japan's 1st Maglev Project on the Go/Tsukiji Market Seen Relocated in 2014
- By Hiroshi OKABE
- KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES
- Foul Winds Lashing Cell-Phones -Japanese Schools Moving to Bar Them
- Isao ADACHI
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 1 Policy Implications of Population Aging
- By Landis MACKELLAR (Economist,economic demography) & David HORLACHER (Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Scholar in Economics at Middlebury College)
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 2 Aging Population in Asia & its Economic Impact
- By Takao KOMINE (Professor, Graduate School of Regional Policy Design, Hosei Univ.)
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 3 Interview with Rio Minami, managing director in charge of real estate operations at Carlyle Japan Offering Living Facilities for Seniors in Japan
- Interviewer: Hiroshi OKABE
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 4 Interview with Mark Colby, founder & chairman, CGI Inc. New Technologies Partly to Blame for Aging Issue -Extending Life Technologically Possible, But Expensive
- By Antonio KAMIYA
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 5 Business Chances Emerge from Aging-Proposal by SECOM
- By Kiyomasa SUGII (Executive officer, SECOM Co.)
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 6 Japan's Medical/Assistive Device Industries: How METI Aids Their Development
- By Akira MASUNAGA (Director, Medical & Assistive Device Industries Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry)
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 7 Aging Population in Japan & Burgeoning Workforce in India: Opportunities for Cooperation
- By Ramgopal AGARWALA (Senior Adviser, Research and Information System for Developing Countries in New Delhi)
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 8 South Korea's Looming Aging Crisis Demographic Change & Challenges of Graying Ahead
- By PYO Han-hyung (Research Fellow, Economic Research Division, Hyundai Research Institute)
- Cover Story : Global Aging-Challenge & Opportunity
- 9 Aging in Asia: Strategic Implications
- By MAHANI Zainal Abidin (Director-General, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia) & Steven C.M. WONG (Assistant Director-General, Bureau of Economic Policy Studies, ISIS)
- SPECIAL ARTICLES
- 1 Systemic Subprime Crisis Plea for Social Control of Financial Innovations
- By Robert BOYER (Former economist at the French Ministry of Public Works)
- SPECIAL ARTICLES
- 2 A Fresh Look at Japan As Concept Leader in the Design of Industrial Processes
- By Dan COFFEY (Senior Lecturer in Economics at Leeds University Business School in Britain)
- BUSINESS PROFILE
- Interview with Senri Tanida, President, Tanita Corp. Controlling Obesity Delights Earth Weight, Nutrition & Exercise - All Combined for Business
- Interviewer: Hiroshi OKABE
- ASIAN VIEW
- China's 2009 Economic Outlook
- By KE Long (Senior Research Fellow, Economic Research Center, Fujitsu Research Institute)
- Viewpoint
- Globalizing Architectural Education in Japan
- By Geeta MEHTA (Founder and director of the architecture program at Temple University Japan Campus)
- CHALLENGING REGION
- Inducing Continuous Innovations TAMA Association
- By Hideto OKAZAKI (Secretary General, the TAMA Association)
- JAPANESE CRAFT & ART
- Urushi in Japanese Culture (3) Preservation of Urushi Artifacts
- By Kazumi MUROSE (Holder of an important intangible cultural asset ("makie"))
- PROMENADE
- Koban Symbol of Japan's Forces of Order
- By Masako WATANABE (JEF)
- FINANCE
- Banks No Longer Necessary? Convenience Stores Turning Banking Points
- By Katsuhiko SAKAI (Senior staff writer and deputy editor at the Economic News Division, Jiji Press)
- ECONOMIC FOCUS
- Key to Longer-term Economic Recovery: Productivity Improvement by Technological Innovation - Productivity Data Show Importance of Supply Side -
- By Naoyuki HARAOKA (Editor-in-Chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
- Culture
- Tent Village & Che Guevara
- By Masakazu HOSODA (Chief editor, Cultural News Section, Kyodo News)
- SPOTLIGHT Editor's postscript
- Randoseru - The School Backpack
- By Natsuko Toyoda (JEF)
- ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR JAPAN
- Charts March/April 2009
- JEF
