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December 21, 2016

Video Report: The 2025 Problem—The Near Future of Japan’s Aging (Mr. Yoh Satoh, Relife-Project Senior Administrator, The Asahi Shimbun)

November 22, 2016

Video report: Japan’s East-Asia Diplomacy (Mr. Yoshiki Mine, President, Institute for Peaceful Diplomacy)

November 11, 2016

Video Report: IoT—Japan’s Strategy and International Competitiveness (Dr. Jun Murai, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University)

November 10, 2016

Video Report: Japan-US Relations After the US Presidential Election (Dr. Yasushi Watanabe, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University)

October 26, 2016

Video report: Turning Japan’s Declining Population into an Opportunity (Ms. Yumiko Murakami, Head of OECD Tokyo Centre)

October 17, 2016

Report: Towards Working-style Reform (Dr. Naohiro Yashiro, the Faculty of Global Business, Showa Women’s University)

September 20, 2016

Report: Present and Future of Japan-China Relations by Prof. Akio Takahara, Vice-dean of Graduate School of Public Policy, The Univ. of Tokyo

September 16, 2016

Video Report:Statistical Look at the Elderly in Japan (65 and Over) (Mr. Masato Chino, Director-General of the Statistical Survey Dept., Statistics Bureau, MIC)

September 5, 2016

Video Report:The U.S. Presidential Election and the Future of Japan-U.S. Relations (Dr. Toshihiro Nakayama, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)

August 31, 2016

Video Report: Current State and Future of Japanese Economy (Mr. Mitsumaru Kumagai, Senior Managing Director/ Chief Economist, Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.)

July 21, 2016

Video Report: Can Japan Win in the Field of Artificial Intelligence? (Dr. Yutaka Matsuo, Project Associate Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)

July 19, 2016

Video Report: The Asia-Pacific After the G7 Summit–US, China, North Korea (Mr. Ichiro Fujisaki, Sophia University Distinguished Professor)

June 20, 2016

Video Report: The Upper House Election and Japanese Politics (GRIPS Prof. Harukata Takenaka)

June 13, 2016

Report: The Future of Economic Revitalization and Fiscal Soundness (JRI Chairman Susumu Takahashi)

April 28, 2016

Video Report: G-Science Academies Policy Recommendations to PM Abe (Science Council of Japan President Takashi Onishi and Vice President Keisuke Hanaki)

April 27, 2016

Video Report: Kumamoto Earthquakes and Earthquake Activity in Japan (Prof. Naoshi Hirata, The Univ. of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute)

April 15, 2016

Report: Inbound Tourism in Japan and Japan’s New Tourism Strategy by Ms. Akiko Yoshida, JNTO Executive Vice President

April 5, 2016

Video Report: Situation Surrounding the DPRK, and US-Japan-ROK Response (Prof. Hajime Izumi, Tokyo International Univ.)

March 24, 2016

Video Report: Japanese Diplomacy and the G7 Summit (Prof. Akihiko Tanaka, the University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Former JiCA President))

March 14, 2016

Video Report: Changes in the Japanese Energy Market with Electricity Deregulation (Mr. Masakazu Toyoda, Chairman & CEO, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)

February 24, 2016

Video Report: “Economic Recovery of Earthquake-Affected Areas, Five Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake” by Prof. Satoru Masuda, Tohoku University

February 23, 2016

Video Report: “Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake, 5 Years Later” by Reconstruction Minister Tsuyoshi Takagi

February 22, 2016

Video Report: “Rebuilding Fukushima —Five Years After the Great East Japan Earthquake and TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident” by Governor Masao Uchibori

February 15, 2016

Report: “Lawson’s Goals for Convenience Stores as Infrastructure” by Mr. Genichi Tamatsuka, President and CEO of Lawson, Inc.

January 26, 2016

Video Report: “Ota City, the First Local Government to Implement Bylaws for ‘Minpaku ’ in a National Strategic Special Zone” by Mayor Tadayoshi Matsubara

January 22, 2016

Report: Domestic Japanese Politics in 2016 by Hiroshi Hoshi, Asahi Shimbun Columnist and Senior Political Writer