Japan accelerates global supercomputer war

Historiography of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan

Regional Income Inequality in the Post War Japan

The objective of this study is to measure regional income inequalities in Japan in the postwar period by using the weighted coefficient of variation and the Theil T index and explore factors determining regional income inequalities by using several inequality decomposition techniques. Regional inequality in per capita GDP, as measured by the weighted coefficient of variation, first increased an...

Leaving the parental home in post-war Japan

Leaving home is a key life event in the transition to adulthood, but it has been relatively less explored in demographic studies of contemporary Japan. This paper examines the relationship between home-leaving intensities of young adults and the rapid social, economic, and demographic changes that took place in post-World War II Japan. By using event-history analysis, the study focuses on 1) fa...

Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis

What counts as global health? There has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. By reviewing Japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upo...

Special Essay: Japan and the Global Factory

Buckley & Strange (2015) have highlighted the major changes in the global location of economic activity over the past 30 years, with the emerging economies assuming greater shares relative to the advanced economies. They noted that the major drivers of these changes included inter alia economic restructuring and market liberalization in many countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and elsewhere; fina...