I feel this story describes more my mother’s generation than my own — then again Japan never fails to shock on the gender front. Guess my own marriage is hardly typical, what with my Japanese husband in charge of the home and both of us happy with no kids https://t.co/NfAg7LKHk1
— Hiroko Tabuchi (@HirokoTabuchi) February 3, 2019
'The problem is with those who didn't give birth,' deputy PM Taro Aso says of Japan's demographic woes https://t.co/MlnOV12iV3
— The Japan Times (@japantimes) February 4, 2019
Data from the World Bank on women's workforce participation in the UK vs. Japan https://t.co/psAiCl3OTS pic.twitter.com/fVGChwQBhh
— Adam Cathcart (@adamcathcart) February 4, 2019
Just learned that 32,000 elderly people living alone in Japan die in their homes each year — Japan seems moving toward a "mass death society" (tashi shakai/多死社会) — anthropologist Jason Danely at Oxford gives a great paper on this https://t.co/IKZAlDHV7G
— Adam Cathcart (@adamcathcart) December 6, 2018
Japanese Women Have the Baby Blues: L’Express Report | SinoMondiale (archives) http://t.co/2w2pl2VnEi
— Adam Cathcart (@adamcathcart) April 20, 2015
Incredible expose on @japantimes by @saitomri: Executive brags — on tape! — about how the paper had attracted more government ads and had scored an interview with PM Abe after dropping a column by @JBKing33, who had been critical of the Abe government. https://t.co/JBKZMRrcBa pic.twitter.com/ci6uKSp4S0
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) January 25, 2019
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has delivered his annual policy speech marking the opening of this year's parliamentary session. Abe also paid tribute to Emperor Akihito, who is set to abdicate at the end of April.https://t.co/WzuC1zIQpx pic.twitter.com/e87NXmTbI4
— Sasakawa USA (@SasakawaUSA) January 29, 2019
During his speech at start of Diet session (28 Jan), Abe quoted poem by Meiji emperor that was used to raise spirits during the Russo-Japanese War. JCP head Ishii Kazuo strongly criticised this as being directly contrary to Japan's pacifist constitution. https://t.co/QLcb8LtQI8
— James D.J. Brown (@JamesDJBrown) January 30, 2019
Why a military spat between Japan and South Korea could snowball into crisis https://t.co/JzbXqisvDH
— Asia Society KOREA (@AsiaSocietyKR) January 28, 2019
A perhaps slightly uncritical view of Japanese railways, but it does show how the private-vs-state ownership debate is often less important than regulatory structure. Japanese rail ‘works’ because it accepts monopoly rather than fetishizing competition. https://t.co/zSFhH5J7vM
— Paul_Kreitman (@Paul_Kreitman) January 29, 2019
Nissan's factory in Sunderland employs around 7,000 people.
61% of people in Sunderland voted to leave the EU in 2016 https://t.co/dX40Ai4bCF
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 3, 2019
Sony and Panasonic both moving European HQ from London to Amsterdam https://t.co/KQLlrdTrOY And a relevant & rational autumn 2016 footnote from @JNilssonWright @CHAsiaPacific report on #Japan and #Brexit https://t.co/x3JYFDvICK pic.twitter.com/Ys9FeHFmBc
— Adam Cathcart (@adamcathcart) January 23, 2019
Documents on Crown Prince Hirohito’s visit to the United Kingdom in 1921 https://t.co/L00pnFCZRY
— Adam Cathcart (@adamcathcart) February 4, 2019
Tues, Feb. 5, 12:30-2:00 pm: Jennifer Lind @profLind (@dartmouth) will present on “The External Sources of Rising State Strength: Anglo-Japanese Relations in the Early 20th Century” https://t.co/NrqZDkJt9s pic.twitter.com/p7azehfEGS
— Harvard US-Japan (@HarvardUSJapan) January 30, 2019