This case study documents the effort to prototype a media literacy curriculum based on
Herman and Chomsky (2010)'s Propaganda Model as well as the target students' …

Expanding the use of renewable energy is a matter of concern in many countries. Many
Japanese local municipalities are attempting to promote business creation using renewable …

The electoral salience of constitutional revision has grown since 2012, but this belies the
widening gulf between the public-at-large and political elites on whether and how to amend …

This chapter examines how income inequality began to receive attention from politicians
and voters in the 2021 election. While income inequality has dominated the political agenda …

This chapter addresses the puzzle of why opposition parties uniformly attacked Abenomics
and the proposed consumption tax hike in the 2017 snap election, despite the seeming …

Located on a remote island off the coast of Shimane Prefecture, the town of Ama has gained
national fame and media attention in Japan as a case of successful revitalization through …

Social inequality is one of the central and unsolved issues of modernity. It is in the
intersection between the idea of a market economy, with competition as an irreplaceable …

The state of Japan's economy played a significant role in the 2017 House of
Representatives election, but not in the way that it had during the almost three decades …

Japan's regions have been affected by an aging population and structural weaknesses.
Now, young people seem to be moving back to the country and solving these problems …

Young people in Japan are increasingly interested in life outside the big cities–so the story
goes in popular media. Specialized lifestyle magazines to national daily newspapers give …