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July/August 2009 Issue |
White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009 |
- Publisher's Note
- Japan's Export Decline & Prospect of Recovery
- By Noboru Hatakeyama
- TOPICS
- ï½¥Setting Sights on Joining 'Water Majors' ï½¥Japan Inc. in Red for First Time in 7 Years ï½¥Biggest-ever Stimulus Package Worth 3% of GDP
- By Hiroshi OKABE (Senior business news editor at Kyodo News)
- KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES
- Premature Job Hunting Vexing Students & Businesses
- By Isao ADACHI (editor, City News Desk, Jiji Press)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 1 Global Economic Crisis Lifts Japan to New Heights
- By Policy Planning Research Division, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 2 Financial Crisis & East Asia: Implications of International Production Networks
- By Fukunari KIMURA (Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 3 Why Asia Needs Better Traffic & Logistics Infrastructure
- By Tsuneaki YOSHIDA (Professor of project planning/management, infrastructure planning & transnational infrastructure management, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Univ.of Tokyo)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 4 Global Governance of Economic Policy
- By Kazumasa IWATA (President, Economic and Social Research Institute)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 5 Tourism Big Bang & Making Japan a Tourism-oriented Nation
- By Shuzo ISHIMORI (Director, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, and also Head, Division of Tourism Creation, Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies at Hokkaido Univ.)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 6 Nurturing Global Leadership at APU: Ba"[å ´], "Wa"[å’Œ] & "Michi"[é“]
- By Monte CASSIM (President, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 7 High Time for Japan to Promote Its Movies Abroad
- By Yoshio KAKEO (executive director, Kinema-Junpo Co., and director, Kinema Junpo Film Institute)
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 8 Membrane Separation Technology: Lifting Japan's Water-linked Environment Business
- By Association of Membrane Separation Technology of Japan
- Cover Story ・White Paper on International Economy & Trade 2009
- 9 Ensuring Safe Water Supplies Across the World
- By Kanetoshi ODA (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nippon Poly-glu Co.)
- SPECIAL ARTICLES
- 1 Japan's Grand Strategy for Agriculture in Globalized World
- By Masayoshi HONMA (Professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Tokyo)
- SPECIAL ARTICLES
- 2 Japanese Management After the Lost Decade Can We Learn from Japan Again? The Revival of J-Management
- By Parissa HAGHIRIAN (associate professor of international management at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University, Tokyo)
- BUSINESS PROFILE
- Interview with Arjun Malhotra, chairman of TiE Global TiE: Fostering Global Entrepreneurship by Mentoring, Networking & Education
- By Antonio KAMIYA (Asian news editor with the English-language wire service of Kyodo News)
- Viewpoint
- Starting a Business in Japan
- By Traci CONSOLI (Chief Executive, Cow Herd at The Pink Cow, Shibuya, Tokyo)
- ASIAN VIEW
- Will the Crisis Divide Asia & America?
- By Simon TAY (Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs)
- Culture
- Light & Shadow of Soft Power
- By Masakazu HOSODA (Chief editor, Cultural News Section, Kyodo News)
- PROMENADE
- (2nd of 2 installments) Special article for promotion of Japan-US student exchange Trends in International Educational Exchange between Japan & the United States
- By Anthony C. OGDEN (Co-chair of the Japan SIG within NAFSA: Association of International Educator)
- CHALLENGING REGION
- Satellite "Maido No.1" Goes to Space SMEs in Higashi-Osaka See Dream Come True
- By Hideyuki TANAHASHI (Executive Director, Astro Technology SOHLA)
- JAPANESE CRAFT & ART
- Remodeled 'Japan Traditional Craft Center' Opens
- By Naohisa MARUYAMA (Acting section chief, General Affairs Department, Association for the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries)
- FINANCE
- Annual Budget Tops 100 Tril. Yen Japan Grows More Dependent on Borrowing
- By Katsuhiko SAKAI (Senior staff writer and deputy editor at the Economic News Division, Jiji Press)
- ECONOMIC FOCUS
- Japan's FTAs: Farm Reform Vital for Better Trade Regime
- By Naoyuki HARAOKA (Editor-in-Chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
- SPOTLIGHT Editor's postscript
- Back to Work!
- By Nao HARADA (JEF)
- ECONOMIC INDICATORS
- Charts July/August 2009
