International trade is an opportunity for the Japanese economy to grow as domestic markets are maturing amid a shrinking and aging society. The country is not considered a trade-dependent nation, but the trade openness ratio has reached record highs as market liberalization measures take effect. As...
This volume attempts to present how Japanese and Russian academics portray and analyze the domestic politics and foreign policy of the two countries in the 2010s. In an era of globalization, Seymore Martin Lipset1is most apt when he says that one never knows one country without knowing other c...
Foreign visitors are often puzzled in Japan because most streets there don't have names.In Japan, people use landmarks instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travellers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The...
This article discusses the reasons for the suspension or withdrawal from uranium exploration by Japanese enterprises. Japan began actively participating in uranium exploration and prospecting in 1970. Since 1975, the demand for uranium has ceased to increase due to reduced demand for electric power and...
Envisioning themselves in a specific country is possibly a characteristic of students of a language, in this case Korean, easily ascribed to a clearly defined speaking context. The desire to live in the country was also a characteristic of some of the New Zealand students of Japanese in de Bur...
Japan was an entirely different space; foreigners visiting this country were convinced they were watching an advanced but completely alien civilization. One such book about Japan in the period of World War II is 'From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima' by Robert Guillain. It is mainly about Japanese ...
The Abe administration is adopting a foreign talent policy as Japan is also interested in white-collar, highly skilled workers and individuals with skills that the country badly needs. To bring in the desired number of high-skilled workers, the Japanese authorities have adopted the points system ...
Foreign visitors are often puzzled in Japan because most streets there don't have names. In Japan, people use landmarks instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, "Go straight down to the corner.Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The...
The ability of migrants to integrate with a host society is deeply affected by the migrant's knowledge of the host country's language. This paper presents the empirical findings of our study conducted in Japan in 2015-2016. The focus was the degree of Japanese language ability among Russian-...
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