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Feature: Structure of Japan's Social Security
A series examining Japan's social safety net — elderly care, child poverty, and public assistance — through structural analysis.
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Feature: Global Structural Shifts
Tracking global structural shifts across politics, diplomacy, economics, environment, technology, conflict, and religion.
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Feature: AI & Society
Exploring how AI reshapes cognition, labor, governance, and social structures — beyond the technology itself.
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The Structure of the Care Worker Crisis — An 'Invisible Roadmap' to 2040
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Series: Feature: Structure of Japan's Social Security
The 'Depth' of Child Poverty — What the Relative Poverty Rate Cannot Tell Us
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Series: Feature: Structure of Japan's Social Security
Public Assistance Take-up Rate at 20% — The Invisible Leakage in Japan's Safety Net
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Series: Feature: Structure of Japan's Social Security
The Financial Reality of Japan's Nonprofit Sector — Structural Vulnerabilities Behind the 'Giving Boom'
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Cognitive Debt — What Happens to the Brain and Society When We Outsource Thinking to AI
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Two Years Since the Act on Loneliness and Isolation — What Has the World's First Comprehensive Law Changed?
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The Sustainability 2026 Problem — The Wall Facing Japanese Companies Ahead of Mandatory Disclosure
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14-Day Consecutive Work Cap and Rest Interval Between Shifts — A Turning Point in Japan's Labor Reform Debate
Legal & RegulatoryLabor & EmploymentJapan
Japan's Digital Platform Regulation — The Transparency Act, Smartphone Software Act, and Information Distribution Platform Act Define New Rules
Legal & RegulatoryDigital PolicyJapan
AI Regulation in the United States: Federal vs. State — Can a Unified Framework Be Achieved?
TechnologyAI RegulationUnited States
Series: Feature: AI & Society
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon — When an AI Company's Ethical Judgment Collides with National Security
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Series: Feature: AI & Society
The Question Posed by U.S. Welfare Retrenchment — Where Is Institutional Trust Headed?
WelfareSocial IssuesUnited States
The Acceleration of Global Wealth Concentration — The Top 0.001% Now Holds Three Times More Than the Bottom 50%
InequalitySocial IssuesGlobal
U.S.–Israeli Military Strikes on Iran — Implications for Energy Security and Civil Society
International AffairsMiddle EastEnergy
Series: Feature: Global Structural Shifts
Employment 'Quantity' Has Recovered — But What About 'Quality'? Structural Challenges in Japan's Labor Market as Revealed by Data
Labor & EmploymentData UtilizationSocial Issues
Series: Feature: Structure of Japan's Labor Market
The Structure of Unemployment — Reading Today's Employment Through Age Groups and Job Openings Ratios
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Series: Feature: Structure of Japan's Labor Market