In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets …

In this article recession magnitudes in Europe, the USA and Japan during the Great Recession are compared. The … strongest recessions (of severe category) occurred in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, while recessions in Japan and the USA were …-1933 in the USA. Hence, comparisons of the Great Recession to the Great Depression in the literature are somewhat exaggerated. …

system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of …

The reinforcement of the Non-governmental organisations’ role in Japan’s ODA program is a challenging task. However, if … the government could help enhancing the transparency of Japan’s foreign aid policy. Under the current system, bureaucrats … dominate the policymaking process so that it is difficult for outsiders to access the information on Japan’s ODA program. …