RESEARCH FELLOWS
NIRA’s research efforts are advanced under the leadership of its Executive Committee and adjunct senior fellows.
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Kazuhiro HIGASHI
Senior Advisor, Resona Holdings, Inc.
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MY VISION
Towards an ASEAN-Japan Partnership for the 21st Century by Masahiko Kiya, Tetsuya Watanabe, Sumiko Takeuchi, Kentaro Machii, Miwa Yamada
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MY VISION
Japan's Educational Disparities and the "Myth of Equality" by Ryoji Matsuoka, Yuko Nonoyama-Tarumi, Katsuji Yamada, Koukichi Shimizu, Kenryu Nakamura
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MY VISION
Japan's Food Security Challenges Considered From Domestic and Global Perspectives by Hiroko Kuno, Akihiko Hirasawa, Mitsuo Fujio, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
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MY VISION
Financing Smart Cities by Lance Kawaguchi, Hiroto Asakawa, Daniel Stander, Takeharu Kikuchi, Shojiro Nakamura, Hideo Yamamoto
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MY VISION
Changing Ways of Living and Working by Alexander Farfurnik, Yuji Ueda, Seigo Hara, Yoshihisa Aono, Daisuke Torii
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MY VISION
The African Economies Today by Solomon K. Maina, M.B.S., German Cufre, Hidekazu Tanaka, Ashraf Patel, Tadashi Yokoyama
Executive Vice President(full time), NIRA
Reiko Kanda
Senior Director
Chairperson, NIRA
Yasufumi KANEMARU
Chairman and President, Group CEO, Future Corporation, Inc
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MY VISION
The Success or Failure of Its Semiconductor Strategy Will Determine the Future of the Nation
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OPINION PAPER
Policy-Making Mechanisms in the Age of Social Media - The Role of the Social Sector in Shaping Public Opinion - by Yasufumi Kanemaru, Noriyuki Yanagawa
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MY VISION
Implementing Responses to Uncertainty in Our Societies
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MY VISION
COVID-19: Highlighting the Japanese Affliction of Indecision
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Readjusting Organizations and Individuals
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MY VISION
Student-oriented University Education
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Taking Up the Challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Kiwamu KATO
Senior Architect, Future Corporation, Inc
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Jiro MIZUSHIMA
Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University
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OPINION PAPER
Seeking to Realize Labor Mobility without Unemployment - A Discussion between Government, Labor and Management - by Yuri Okina, Jiro Mizushima
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Economy, Society and Culture, and Globalization by Masaki Taniguchi, Jiro Mizushima, Toru Yoshida, Sho Niikawa, Hirohito Yasoda, Sho Muto, Mitsuo Koga, Takayuki Nishiyama, Jeyong Sohn
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Yuri OKINA
Chairperson, The Japan Research Institute, Limited
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MY VISION
How Should We Respond to the Increasing Presence of Activist Investors?
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MY VISION
Toward the Formulation of Long-Term Fiscal Projections and the Realization of Appropriate Fiscal Management
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OPINION PAPER
Seeking to Realize Labor Mobility without Unemployment - A Discussion between Government, Labor and Management - by Yuri Okina, Jiro Mizushima
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OPINION PAPER
Is the Ratio of Burden and Benefits Fair for Households Raising Children? - An International Comparative Analysis of Income and Rates of Economic Burden for Employed Households- by Yuri Okina
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MY VISION
Toward a Society in Which Establishing a Startup Is a Readily Available Choice
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OPINION PAPER
Changes in National Debt as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic - An International Comparative Perspective -- by Yuri Okina
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MY VISION
The Feared Acceleration of Decline in Japan's Birthrate Due to COVID-19
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OPINION PAPER
Public Acceptance of an Increase in the Burden of Medical Expenses for the Elderly - Considering the Issues based on the Results of a Deliberative Survey (2)- by Yuri Okina
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OPINION PAPER
Characteristics and Issues of Japan's Response to COVID-19 by Yuri Okina
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MY VISION
The Road to Realization of a Carbon-Free Society
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OPINION PAPER
What Can We Learn From Germany’s Response to COVID-19?- Medical Preparedness / Flexible Responses / Management of Public Funds- by Yuri Okina, Ortwin Renn, Ansgar Lohse
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OPINION PAPER
Why did Sweden Choose not to Lock Down? - Constitutional provisions and national character are the background factors -
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OPINION PAPER
Responses to COVID-19: Considering the Evidence -How should we prepare for a second wave?-
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MY VISION
Towards a Society in which Dementia Sufferers can live their Lives as they wish
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How should we understand the US-China Confrontation? by Satoshi Machidori , Hiroshi Nakanishi, Shin Kawashima, Masahiko Hosokawa, Martin Wolf
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Becoming an Advanced ESG Nation by Hiro Mizuno, Akiyoshi Oba, Tsutomu Igaki, Keisuke Takegahara, Rintaro Tamaki
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Trumponomics and Japan by Glenn Hubbard, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Fukunari Kimura, Takeo Kikkawa, Yukio Okamoto
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Income Disparity and Japan's Taxation System by Ayako Kondo, Shigeki Morinobu, Motohiro Sato, Keiichiro Kobayashi, Takashi Oshio
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Toshihiro OKUBO
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
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OPINION PAPER
How Can We Quantify the Burgeoning Digital Economy? - The Limitations of GDP as a Measure and Efforts Towards the Development of New Statistical Measures- by Toshihiro Okubo
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RESEARCH REPORT
9th Questionnaire Survey on the Effects of the Spread of COVID-19 on Telework-based Work Styles, Lifestyle, and Awareness (Preliminary Report) by Toshihiro Okubo, Nippon Institute for Research Advancement
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OPINION PAPER
Why Is Gig Work Not More Widely Used as a Side Job? -The Current Status of Gig Work and Associated Issues as Revealed By a Questionnaire Survey on the Effects of the Spread of COVID-19 on Telework-based Work Styles, Lifestyle, and Awareness- by Toshihiro Okubo
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RESEARCH REPORT
The Lessons Learned from Telework and Pandemic Countermeasures: The Impact and Challenges of COVID-19 in Japan and the Country's post-COVID Prospects by Toshihiro Okubo, Atsushi Inoue, Kozue Sekijima
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OPINION PAPER
The Pandemic Policy Dilemma in Japan: Stopping COVID's Spread or Mitigating its Economic Impact by Toshihiro Okubo
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OPINION PAPER
Expansion of Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic - The Income Gap and the Digitalization Gap - by Toshihiro Okubo
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OPINION PAPER
Telework as a Long-Term Solution: Problems and Contradictions to Overcome by Toshihiro Okubo
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Sonoe OMODA
Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
President, NIRA
Masaki TANIGUCHI
Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
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MY VISION
50 Years Later: Continuing Significance, Ongoing Challenges
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OPINION PAPER
Can Japan Reach a Consensus Regarding Policies to Address Its Low Birthrate?- Building Platforms for Participatory Democracy- by Masaki Taniguchi
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MY VISION
What Can We Learn From Liz Truss's Britain?
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MY VISION
The "New Reality" That the Metaverse Will Open Up to Us
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Bias in Internet-Based Surveys - A Comparative Study Using the Census and an Interview-Based Survey- by Masaki Taniguchi, Shoko Omori
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OPINION PAPER
What Constitutes a Policy Vision That the Public Can Accept? by Masaki Taniguchi
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Economy, Society and Culture, and Globalization by Masaki Taniguchi, Jiro Mizushima, Toru Yoshida, Sho Niikawa, Hirohito Yasoda, Sho Muto, Mitsuo Koga, Takayuki Nishiyama, Jeyong Sohn
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MY VISION
Can the News Media Create an Unfragmented Public Sphere?
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MY VISION
Stagnation in Japan Studies Abroad
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MY VISION
Reform in the Reiwa Era
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MY VISION
Confronting the “Post-Truth Era”
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OPINION PAPER
How can Japan overcome Two-fold Political Alienation?- The Destabilization of the Middle Class and the Emptying-out of the Political Mainstream - by Masaki Taniguchi
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Shigeki UNO
Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
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MY VISION
Creativity Will Be Essential for Children in the Age of AI
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OPINION PAPER
Reflections on 30 Years of Administrative Decentralization Reform - Towards Redefinition of the Division of Roles between the National and Local Governments - by Shigeki Uno, Nozomi Matsui
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OPINION PAPER
Formulating Policies That Align with Japanese Values - Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Policy by Shigeki Uno, Sonoe Omoda, Yasushi Watanabe
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MY VISION
Can Citizens’ Climate Assemblies Help Society to Change?
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MY VISION
Pioneering the World of "DAOs": New Hopes and Concerns
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OPINION PAPER
What Do Freedom and Equality Mean to the Japanese?- Considering the Issues Based on the Results of a Deliberative Survey (3)- by Shigeki Uno
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MY VISION
"Long-Term Thinking" Will Change the Future
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Local Empowerment in the Era of Digitalization by Shigeki Uno
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OPINION PAPER
Towards the Era of a New Sense of Ownership -What is Ownership?- by Shigeki Uno, Yuki Uchida, Retz Fujisawa, Emi Yoneda
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MY VISION
Preparedness for Response to Unknown Infectious Diseases Among Regional and Local Government Leaders
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MY VISION
Realizing Human-centered Policy through Design Thinking
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The Potential of Germany’s “Soziale Stadt” Program by Masako Murota, Kenji Yamamoto, Satoshi Baba, Shigeaki Oba, Heizou Takamatsu
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OPINION PAPER
The Possibilities of Local Commonsn by Shigeki Uno, Makoto Hayakawa
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MY VISION
A New Stage for the Furusato Nozei System by Tatsuo Ikeda, Ryo Tanaka, Issei Nishikawa, Naruhiko Kuroda, Mariko Mikami
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Yasushi WATANABE
Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Noriyuki YANAGAWA
Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
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MY VISION
Acceptance of Foreign Workers: A Consideration Based on Actual Conditions
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MY VISION
Will There Be a Fully-Fledged Expansion of Domestic Investment in Japan?
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OPINION PAPER
Policy-Making Mechanisms in the Age of Social Media - The Role of the Social Sector in Shaping Public Opinion - by Yasufumi Kanemaru, Noriyuki Yanagawa
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MY VISION
Realizing "Investment in People" with a Focus on the Different Challenges Faced by Each Individual
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Considering the Responsibilities of the Public and Private Sectors in the Face of the Increasing Incidence of Cyberattacks
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MY VISION
Positioning Vocational Training and Recurrent Education as "Lifelong Learning"
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OPINION PAPER
Coping with the Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic - The need for international coordination and cooperation by André Sapir, Franz Waldenberger, Glen S. Fukushima, Hubertus Bardt, Noriyuki Yanagawa, Shujie Yao, Tomas Kåberger
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MY VISION
Does scientific analysis enhance the quality of policy? by Daiji Kawaguchi, Yohei Kobayashi, Makiko Nakamuro, Martyn Hammersley, Tsutomu Watanabe
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MY VISION
Towards Full-scale Utilization of Big Data by Jun Nakamura, Hiroshi Mano, Tristan W. Chong, Takuya Kitagawa, Dietmar Harhoff
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MY VISION
Regtech: The Dawn of a New Direction for Regulation by Tim O'Reilly, Masataka Hayakawa, Takamasa Sasaki, Hiroyuki Morikawa, Kenji Kushida
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OPINION PAPER
The Future presented by Japan's Population Trends - Who will bear the Financial Burden of Social Security? - by Akira Morita, Yasushi Iwamoto, Takashi Oshio, Hitoshi Suzuki, Nanako Tamiya, Tadashi Fukui, Noriyuki Yanagawa
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MY VISION
Beyond the Threshold towards a “Super-Aged Society” by Tetsuo Tsuji, Yasuko Hashimoto, Kenji Toba, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Kohei Onozaki
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OPINION PAPER
Diversification of Modes of Work will Create a New Safety Net by Noriyuki Yanagawa