Issue 4: Regional Economic Integration

Economic Partnerships with ASEAN Members are Necessary

Economic partnerships between Japan and the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are of strategic importance to Japan’s Asia policy. However, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry […]

Issue 4: Regional Economic Integration

Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan: Typology and Human Rights

Like other developing countries, Indonesia faces high unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. In Japan, despite great demand for unskilled labor created by the reluctance of highly qualified young workers to take blue collar jobs, Japanese […]

Issue 4: Regional Economic Integration

Focus on: NGOs Helping Migrant Workers in Japan

Kyoto Review recently talked with Ms. Aoki Reiko about problems faced by migrants and the Japanese laws that affect them. Aoki works with two NGOs in Japan’s Kansai region: Asian People Together, an affiliate of […]

Issue 4: Regional Economic Integration

Japanese Government Support for Cultural Exports

From the end of World War Π until the mid 1980s, the Japanese government did very little to promote the export of Japanese cultural industries and products to the world – especially to East and […]

Issue 3: Nations and Stories

Ryukyu Networks in Maritime Asia

An Introduction to the Rekidai Hoan The Ryukyu Kingdom (present-day Okinawa) was located at the intersection of the South China Sea and East China Sea facing South China and Kyushu. Long before the Ryukyu Kingdom […]

Issue 3: Nations and Stories

The Rekidai Hoan: Documents of the Ryukyu Kingdom

A published translation from Japanese by the Editorial Office of Rekidai Hoan, Okinawa Archives, Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education, March 2003.)  Origin of the Diplomatic Documents of the Ryukyu Kingdom A 444-Year Record (1414-1867) The […]