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Migration News IMM Japan receives 180,000 yen ($1,579) a month per trainee from Japanese companies during the three-year trainee and intern period, and the workers receive 80,000 yen ($702) as a net monthly salary in the first year, 90,000 yen ($789) in the second year, and 100,000 yen ($877) in the third year. Japan is grappling with a demographic transition in a floundering economy. Japan has 26 million people over 65 in a population of 127 million, and their number is growing by a million a year. migration.ucdavis.edu /mn/comments.php?id=2331_0_3_0_C   (523 words)

Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy By 2050, Japan will still be the fourth-biggest economy in the world after China, the US and India, according to a Goldman Sachs report, but its dynamism, significance and contribution to global growth will almost certainly have been surpassed by the newcomers. The second reason behind Japan's limited global influence is the fundamental distrust and bitterness with which it is perceived by its neighbors, as a result of Tokyo's reluctance to atone more substantially and apologize for atrocities committed by the Imperial Army during its occupation of Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. Japan should not take comfort from these low figures, for they suggest that foreigners do not want to move to Japan, or that Japanese society is not mature enough to tolerate people of different backgrounds. www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/HD27Dh01.html   (3114 words)

The Historical Demography of Pre-Modern Japan; ; Akira Hayami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The Historical Demography of Pre-Modern Japan; ; Akira Hayami Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. In this volume, Akira Hayami, one of the pioneers of historical demography in Japan, reports on the findings of researchers who are working with these rich sources of data. www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/086008/0860085295.HTM   (117 words)

Back In Business - Forbes.com Japan Inc. is now in the business of making money for investors, which is one reason why Japanese equities have been so perky of late, having lain etherized upon the table for a decade. Japan is such a sensible diversification away from the rest of the world's excesses, which are fueled by underpriced capital and become bubbles. Japan's corporate sector has made the most improvement in the OECD in reducing its debt; its debt-to-equity ratio is now back to pre-1990 levels. www.forbes.com /home/global/2006/0109/052A.htmlrel=   (989 words)

Corporate Note: New Challenges to Japan & the U.S.-Japan Alliance - Corporate & Policy Programs Japan will also extend a $1.5 billion grant towards the war in Iraq in 2004, with a total commitment of up to $5 billion (second only to the U.S.), he noted. In regard to North Korea, Japan is cooperating closely with the U.S. and South Korea to prevent instability. Fujisaki responded that Japan needs to develop a positive policy stance towards free trade agreements; that the emphasis by Japan on GATT and WTO for the past 30 to 40 years has not changed, but with NAFTA, free trade agreements have gained momentum, he said. www.japansociety.org /corporate/event_corp_note.cfm?id_note=386803741   (1067 words)

TIMEasia.com Japan was in trouble long before anyone even imagined that the words Asia and crisis could be used in the same sentence. Maybe the economy has never recovered from the bursting of the late-'80s financial bubble; maybe Japan's dismal demography (the working-age population peaked in 1997 and is expected to decline steadily for decades to come) is the key. Some economists (most obnoxiously, yours truly) have argued that Japan needs to stand the normal rules of monetary policy on their head, abandoning the goal of price stability and actually committing to a moderate rate of inflation (which would make borrowing more attractive, and holding cash less so). www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990621/cover3.html   (886 words)

NAPSNet Daily Report, Friday, May 2, 2003 Agence France-Presse ("JAPAN SEEKS ALLY IN INDIA FOR ITS CAMPAIGN AGAINST NORTH KOREA," 05/02/03) reported that Japan, which slapped economic sanctions on India for its 1998 nuclear tests, is sending its defense minister to rope in New Delhi for a diplomatic offensive against the DPRK, diplomats said. Analysts say Japan, which has so far received no credible evidence from the US on the so-called nexus, is sending its defence minister in the hope India could be of help. Japan's first spy satellites were launched March 28 as part of efforts to keep tabs on the DPRK. www.nautilus.org /archives/napsnet/dr/0305/MAY02.html   (3414 words)

NAPSNet Daily Report, Monday, May 5, 2003 The Japan Times ("CHILDREN COMPRISE RECORD LOW 14.1% OF POPULATION," 05/05/03) reported that the population of children under age 15 in Japan declined for the 22nd straight year, it was learned Sunday. Japan is among the countries with the smallest percentage of children according to data recorded recently worldwide. China Daily ("JAPAN DEBATES MISSILE DEFENSE", Tokyo, 05/05/03, P12) reported that Japan's Defense Agency is to consider revising its plans and clear the way for a new missile defense system, as Japanese media reported on May 4. www.nautilus.org /archives/napsnet/dr/0305/MAY05.html   (4563 words)

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page And the obvious answer is demography: Japan's combination of declining birth rate and lack of immigration apparently means a shrinking rather than growing labor force over the next several decades. Demography seems to be the leading candidate; other "structural" reasons that are widely cited, while they do amount to an impressive litany of sins, do not necessarily explain why demand should be inadequate, as opposed to simply causing garden-variety microeconomic inefficiency. Japan has been unable to get its economy moving precisely because the market regards the central bank as being responsible, and expects it to rein in the money supply if the price level starts to rise. www.pkarchive.org /japan/japtrap.html   (5770 words)

Amazon.de: Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan (Studies in Demography): English Books: Carl Mosk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) This text shows how population quality, specifically the population quality of schoolchildren in Japan, as measured with figures on height, weight, chest girth and body weight index, provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in that greatly changed and expanded society. Japan exemplifies the capacity to industrialize rapidly and raise income levels despite severe natural resource constraints. It finds, however, that gross food intake played a minor role; the main reasons the decline in net nutrition are in the rate of physical work extracted from children and greater medical and public health efficacy in fighting infection. www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0520083156   (298 words)

Migration News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Most were born in Korea or are the children of Koreans brought to Japan during Japan's 35-year occupation of the Korean peninsula between 1910 to 1945. Korea, which advocates voting rights for Koreans living in Japan, enacted legislation in 2000 to extend local voting rights to permanent foreign residents by 2002 in Korea. However, an effort in 2000 to extend local voting rights to permanent foreign residents in Japan was not approved. migration.ucdavis.edu /MN/comments.php?id=2310_0_3_0   (377 words)

Modern Japan, Japanese Economics, The United States and Japan Japan's geographical frontier, far from having contracted after defeat, became, in economic terms, more open, when the US, the world's richest market, agreed to accept Japanese products with no reciprocal opening of the Japanese market. Japan's geographical position, on the far side of an ocean the US needs to control for its own defense, and close to China and Russia, protagonists in the Cold War, supplied the sense of mutual advantage on which lasting international friendships are built. Japan has trodden its only important political frontier warily but, as long as the Cold War lasted, with considerable success. www.ralphmag.org /AP/japan.html   (644 words)

UCLA Center for Japanese Studies :: Social Science Research Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Japan specialists who are interested in broadening their skills and expertise through additional training or comparative work in an additional geographic area, or non-Japan specialists who propose undertaking new comparative work in Japan, are particularly encouraged to apply. Projects need not be explicitly related to the study of Japan but must require work with colleagues and resources in Japan. All accredited universities and research institutions in Japan under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture are eligible host institutions. www.isop.ucla.edu /japan/article.asp?parentid=16418   (741 words)

Medieval Demography The first is "Historical Demography of Pre-Modern Japan" (Akira Hayami, University of Tokyo, 1997). This focusses on the Tokugawa period, but does have some useful material on medieval demography in Japan. Finally, a new book on English demography, "England's Population - A History Since the Domesday Survey" (Andrew Hinde, Arnold, 2003) provides a comprehensive overview of English population from 1086 through to the 20th Century. homepage.mac.com /jeremybaker/C1103366751/E745775937/index.html   (161 words)

Israel News : Jerusalem Post Internet Edition Meanwhile, Japan's stringent immigration policy keeps legally registered foreigners down to 1.8 million ñ there are also an estimated 300,000 illegal workers. The government's attitude toward Israel is influenced by the fact that 87% of Japan's oil flows from the Middle East. Japan is, after all, an industrious country of polite people, masters of technology. www.mafhoum.com /press6/183P6.htm   (694 words)

Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Davos Newbies Home Today’s Financial Times provides valuable insight into what changing demography means in Japan, which faces the most dramatic changes over the next decades. Its model assumes that Japan will have to admit millions of foreign workers to make up for a 6.1m shortfall in the workforce by 2025. Japan’s history suggests it is far from ready even to contemplate such an influx.” www.davosnewbies.com /?p=831   (328 words)

Family and Social Policy in Japan - Cambridge University Press The conclusion is that a great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a consequence of Japan's changing economy, demography and the development of civil society. The case studies, based on intensive anthropological fieldwork, not only demonstrate how and why family and social policies have evolved in the world's second largest economy, but in the process provide a challenge to many of the assumptions of western policymakers. Death policies in Japan: the state, the family and the individual Yohko Tsuji; 9. www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521016355&print=y   (384 words)

WWW-VL History Index Ancient Japan, to 710 A.D. Myth of the formation of Japan in 660 BC St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus at Goa, 1551 St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552 vlib.iue.it /history/asia/Japan/japan.html   (448 words)

Global Initiative: Japan Research Office | Research Professor Dick Vietor (BGIE) developed a case on Japan focusing on its challenges related to fiscal deficits, demography and deflationary economy. In Japan, the revised commercial code, which became effective in May 2002, allowed companies to select either the traditional, statutory auditor system or a "committee system" inspired by U.S. practice. In 2003, as a result of the change in the commercial code, Nomura Holdings was trying to adopt a committee system, a governance structure very similar to the one widely used in the U.S. The case allows discussions on Nomura's strategic choices, governance structure alternatives, and the relationship between the two decisions. www.hbs.edu /global/JRO-research.html   (2124 words)

Japan Religion A school teacher visits Japan and touches on schools, tea ceremony, gardens, religion and language. Everything about modern and traditional Japan with emphasis on travel and living related information. Summary of Japan's Religion Japan's Religion and Philosophy Overview SHINTO BUDDHISM CHRISTIANITY RELIGION IN JAPAN TODAY Overview Japan's religious history has been a long... www.acardinaldeposed.com /japan-religion.html   (163 words)

Island Jurisdictions Index--Japan Constitution of Japan, from the Office of the Prime Minister of Japan Judgments of the Supreme Court of Japan (English); there appears to be no English-language guide to the judgments, and the website's search engine seems not to locate terms in the judgments Outline of Criminal Justice in Japan, from the Supreme Court of Japan www.macmeekin.com /Library/Jurisds/Japan.htm   (303 words)

Population Association of Japan: Home The Population Association of Japan: PAJ was established in 1948. In order to facilitate the development of the population studies in Japan, we hold an annual academic meeting once a year usually in June with regional meetings in three regions, i.e. Population aging in Urban areas: present and in future in China was reported by GUI Shi-Xun (East China Normal University), in Korea by CHOE Ehn-Hyun (Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs), in Taiwan by SUN Te-Hsiung (Taiwan University), and in Japan by Atsushi OTOMO (Japan Women's University). wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp /paj/home-e.htm   (847 words)

Demographical models and financing retirement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) This page offers an Excel workbook with population projections for Austria, USA, Germany, and Japan. The model uses the most recent census and life tables as obtained from the national census offices. Fertility (defined as number of birth per year and per woman aged 15 - 45) is assumed to be constant with the value from 1991. sunsite.univie.ac.at /Projects/demography   (57 words)

Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) It's the Demography, Stupid The real reason the West is in danger of extinction. Thursday 10 November 2005 It’s the demography, stupid Mark Steyn New Hampshire ‘What does it matter where this path leads, nowhere or elsewhere, if the furrow continues flowering, if the flash of lightning still inflames the night?’ writes Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of the French Republic, in his 823-page treatise on poetry. Russia is now at the brink of a steep population decline—a peacetime hemorrhage framed by a collapse of the birth rate and a catastrophic surge in the death... www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=demography   (4173 words)

Demography :: United Nations System-Wide EARTHWATCH Ten years into the new era opened by the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, the quality and reach of family planning programmes have improved, safe motherhood and HIV prevention efforts are being scaled up, and governments embrace the ICPD Programme of Action as an essential blueprint for realizing development goals. The Population and Development Branch, TSD, prepared this report as a contribution to the dialogue that took place at the Third World Water Forum held in Kyoto, Japan, and covers the population, gender and health dimensions related to the ongoing debate on water resources. This report provides an overview of the complex interrelations between population, the environment and poverty and the operational challenges they engender. earthwatch.unep.net /demography/index.php   (258 words)

History 159B - The World Economy, 1750-1914 - Fall 2005 Economic Growth in China, Japan, and Russia, 1600-1913 Economy and Demography in Japan, W. Europe, and China, 1700-1913 Relative Growth of the Populations of China, Japan, and W. Europe history.berkeley.edu /faculty/Pearson/H159B/visuals4.html   (111 words)

Find in a Library: The population of Japan. Find in a Library: The population of Japan. To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/4abf5aa750814efa.html   (43 words)

JEWISH AND KOSHER JAPAN, BY KOSHER DELIGHT - YOUR JEWISH ONLINE MAGAZINE!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) JAPAN THROUGH THE EYES OF A FRUM YID, BY DANIEL ELDRICH TRANSCENDING THE "CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS" - BY IOKIBE MAKOTO, a Professor in the Faculty of Law, Kobe University. THE LOST TRIBES - ISRAELITES CAME TO ANCIENT JAPAN, BY ARIMASA KUBO www.kosherdelight.com /Japan.htm   (232 words)

Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2001017450 The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher. Seiritsu Ogura teaches at Hosei University and is a member of the Japan Center for Economic Research. Toshiaki Tachibanaki is a professor of economics in the Institute for Economic Research at Kyoto University. www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/uchi051/2001017450.html   (214 words)

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