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The Need for Comprehensive Social Security and Tax Reform and
Problems in the Government’s Draft Proposal

Masatoshi Katagiri
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University
Areas of Specialization: Public Finance, U.S. Public Finance

The year 2011 turned out to be a tough one for the world and for Japan. In order to contend with the financial crisis and global recession stemming from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, developed countries implemented large-scale fiscal stimulus and relaxed monetary policy. [ More ]

(Feb. 6)

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Mathematical Culture and ENCOUNTERwithMATHEMATICS

Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu
Professor of Geometry (Specializing in Differential Topology), Dynamic Systems and Mathematical Physics,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University

Does mathematics in general, and particularly modern mathematics, give people a cold clinical image? And do people avoid it precisely because it is so difficult? To a certain extent, the answer to both these question is yes, with many discoveries today the result of highly complex and abstract research, albeit challenging and exciting at the same time. [ More ]

(Feb. 2)

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GENOA and the Ecovillage Design Education (EDE)

Toshio Ogata
Professor of Macroeocnomis and Ecological Economics, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in 1972 in Stockholm and people began to point out the Limit to Growth. The fourth report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights the risks of human actions such as high level of economic activities and new life styles to accelerate the global warming, which would cause serious disasters. [ More ]

(Jan. 19)

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Disaster Area Volunteers from Chuo University: Winter Volunteer Report
-Surpassing introductory theory to realize continuing activities-

Hideo Nakazawa, Et al.
Professor of Political Sociology, Regional Sociology, Faculty of Law, Chuo University

“Japan only possesses an introduction to volunteer theory.” -This grievance was made by Mr. Kenichi Kusachi (deceased), who served as an organizer of volunteers after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. For the two months following the 1995 earthquake, millions of volunteers gathered in the Hanshin region. [ More ]

(Feb. 9)

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An Enthralling Talent

Mr. Makoto Naruke
Director and Founder, Inspire Corporation

Mr. Naruke made a bet with a classmate when he was in junior high.
Declaring never to become businessmen, each of them agreed to pay the other his first paycheck if he ever broke his word and entered the business world. [ More ]

(Jan. 26)