From leading to following in the region

In the post-war period, Japan played an important and active role in creating and providing public goods and development assistance in the region, and in maintaining open and robust markets. For example, Japan effectively led the establishment of the Asian Development Bank, and, together with Australia, was instrumental in the creation of APEC. But for the past decade or more Japan’s foreign economic diplomacy has stalled, and the nation is doing little to actively contribute to shaping a stable and prosperous region at a time when regional and global institutions are under pressure, in a state of transition and flux

A final solution to the mind-body problem by quantum language

Recently we proposed “quantum language”, which was not only characterized as the metaphysical and linguistic turn of quantum mechanics but also the linguistic turn of Descartes = Kant epistemology. And further we believe that quantum language is the only scientifically successful theory in dualistic idealism. If this turn is regarded as progress in the history of western philosophy (i.e., if “philosophical progress” is defined by “approaching to quantum language”), we should study the linguistic mind-body problem more than the epistemological mind-body problem. In this paper, we show that to solve the mind-body problem and to propose “measurement axiom” in quantum language are equivalent. Since our approach is always within dualistic idealism, we believe that our linguistic answer is the only true solution to the mindbody problem

Interaction between trade, conflict and cooperation: The case of Japan and China

The complex interaction between trade and politics is analysed for the Japan-China relationship using Granger causality tests. The purpose is to determine the presence and direction of causation between trade and political events, both positive and negative, and to gauge an idea of the lag length of causality. Trade is growing quickly between Japan and China despite long standing political distance between the two countries. Results show that the economic relationship underpins and constrains the political relationship between Japan and China while an increase in positive political news and a decrease in negative political news promote trade to some degree