Public Policy
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Reading the 85.6% estimate for digital high-school admissions
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Drink-driving: How Should Japan Assess Legal Changes and Recurrence Prevention?
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When can municipal disaster staff rest? Health checks, handovers and support
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Does Less Redelivery Mean Less Work for Logistics Staff?
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Does a Shorter Governance Code Reduce Directors’ Responsibilities?
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Must Tenants Leave Immediately After a Condominium Rebuilding Vote?
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Bear Spray: What Does a Test Result of at Least 10m Tell Us?
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Do Additional Charges for Long-listed Medicines Depend Only on Patient Preference?
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Children's social media: what changes after an age check? Features and correction
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What changes when you book a recovery discount through a different channel?
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Before charging for Fuji rescues, measure delayed calls
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In the Year the National Museum of Art's Grant Rose, the National Film Archive of Japan's Share of the Grant Fell Sharply. That Same Year, More Than 5,500 People Gave the Archive Over ¥150 Million
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Of the 690,000 People Who Visited the National Museum of Western Art's Collection Galleries in FY2024, the General and University Student Categories Facing the Fee Rise Made Up 26%
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Five National Art Museums Will Charge ¥1,000 for Their Collection Exhibitions. The Fee Rise Was Written into the Medium-Term Objectives the Education Ministry Set in February
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Japan Post Failed to State Terms to 167 Freelancers. The First Day of the Violation Period Is the Day the Law Took Effect
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Fukushima Holds About 14 Million Cubic Metres of Removed Soil. Reuse Outside the Prefecture Began With Flower Beds at Two Government Buildings
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Japan Cut the Default Speed Limit on Residential Roads to 30 km/h — a Nationwide Noise Measure Enacted Without Noise as an Objective
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Pricing What Cannot Be Measured: Building a Willingness to Pay
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Has PFS Reached Beyond the Three Priority Fields?
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Two Ways to Support PFS Beyond Service Delivery
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Three Criteria for Comparing Project Support Roles
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Overseas Sales of Japanese Content Tripled in Ten Years to ¥5.8 Trillion, and the Cool Japan Fund Will Not Request Funding for FY2027
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Teacher Attrition from Mental Illness Hits a Record 1,319 — Will the Raise Reach the Root?
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Quantitative Comparison of Noise Ordinances Across Tokyo's 23 Special Wards — Implementation Divergences in Penalties, Time Restrictions, Source Categories, and Resident Petition Protocols
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A Methodology for Structural Analysis of PPP/PFI Contracts — Reading Foundational Clauses, Risk Allocation Matrices, and Monitoring Provisions in Three Streams
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The Five-Layer Methodology of Meaning Inversion for Shrinking Assets — A Draft Evaluation Framework for PPP Projects
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Adaptive Reuse of Decommissioned Oil Terminals and Refineries — Comparing Ten Domestic Cases and Three International Precedents
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27,000 Defunct Gas Stations and Subsurface Tank Legacies: A Typology of Shrinking Assets
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A Proposed Industry Responsibility Clause for the Municipal Soundscape Ordinance Model
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Seven Years of Assembly Seat Reduction Debates — The Time Structure of 'Candidate Shortage' and Seat Apportionment Ordinance Revisions in Japanese Local Assemblies
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Seven Years of 'Decarbonization' Discourse — Discontinuous Diffusion of Climate Language in Japanese Local Assemblies (2018–2024)
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Seven Years of 'Fiscal Consolidation' Discourse — The Temporal Structure of Fiscal-Crisis Language in Japanese Local Assemblies (2018–2024)
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Seven Years of LGBTQ and Partnership Ordinance Debate — Regional Diffusion of Sexual Minority Discourse in Japanese Local Assemblies
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Seven Years of Young-Carer Mentions in Japanese Local Assemblies — The Time Structure of 'Children Who Care for Family Members' in Assembly Discourse
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Airport Concession Revenue Structure — The 'Viability Threshold' Revealed by 12 National-Government Airports and the Conditions for Private Entry
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Park-PFI Seven Years of Revenue Structure — Conditions for Revenue Facilities in Urban Parks and the Three-Type Divergence
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The PPP Desk Divide — Structural Gaps in Municipal Internal Capacity and Their Impact on Project Formation
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Risk Allocation in PPP/PFI Projects — How Poor Matrix Design Drives Project Failure
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Structural Comparison of Three Water Concession Cases — Divergence Conditions of Operational Transfer in Miyagi, Hamamatsu, and Susaki
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The Statistical Absence of Femicide (The Structure of Deaths That Cannot Be Counted)
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The Monthly Labour Statistics Scandal and the Reproduction of State Ignorance — When the Numbers 'Did Not Exist'
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Selective Description in Educational Curricula and the Filtering of Knowledge
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"I Have No Recollection" — The Institutionalization Mechanism of Political Memory Denial
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The Learning Curve of Nine Noise Lawsuits — From the Tolerable Limit Doctrine to a ¥5.9 Billion Verdict
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Regional Distribution of 'Vacant Houses' and 'Public Facilities' Debate in Japanese Local Assemblies — A Seven-Year Structural Analysis Across 1,320 Municipalities
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Regional Distribution of 'Foreign Workforce' Debate in Japanese Local Assemblies — A Seven-Year Structural Analysis Across 870 Municipalities
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What Divides Japan's Teacher Shortage Is the Prefecture: A 4.4x Recruitment Gap and 43 Worsening Local Governments
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One Year After Japan's Loneliness and Isolation Countermeasures Act: Why Only 0.6% of Municipalities Set Up Regional Councils
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Seven Years of 'Care' Mentions in Japanese Local Assemblies — The Time Structure of Long-Term Care Insurance Act Revisions and Policy Lag
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Japan's Late-Elderly Medical Premium Cap Raised from ¥800K to ¥850K (FY2026): Pinpoint Increase on the Top 1.2% and Its Spillover to Middle and Lower Incomes
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Literature Map: A Lineage of Local Assembly Speech Data Research — Centered on the Work of Haruka Watanabe, Yasutomo Kimura, and Kenjiro Higashi
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A Nation That Underinvests in Education — Japan's Public Spending at 56% of the OECD Average and the Inequality It Perpetuates
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Structural Analysis of Japan's Small Concession Three Walls — Revenue Structure Types and Breakthrough Patterns
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Financial income and insurance charges: what is decided for older-person medical care and long-term care?
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National Distribution of Deferral Phrasing in Assembly Responses — A Structural Analysis of 18.97 Million Records from 870 Municipalities
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Local Assembly Civic Data Lab — Hypotheses and Overview: Reading Assembly Speeches as Observations
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Public Asset Utilization Lab — Hypotheses and Scope
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Local Assembly Civic Data Lab — Reading Policy Diffusion Across Japan's 1,788 Assemblies
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The Digital Deficit and the 'Year of the AI Agent' — Three Structural Biases Settling in the Draft Phase of Japan's Digital Society Vision Council
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Reclaiming "Social Vision" from the Language of State Policy — How ISVD's "Social Vision Design" Differs from the Digital Agency's "Digital Society Vision Council"
News
Digital Society Vision Council, 12th Meeting (May 22, 2026) — Briefing on the Next Priority Plan and ISVD's Reading
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Japan's Civil Court Digitalization, May 21, 2026 — mints Mandate and the Problem of the 7% Pro-Se Litigant
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From 'Merchants of Doubt' to 'Captors of Regulation' — Reading Big AI's Regulatory Capture through 27 Mechanisms
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The 'Softification' of Public Services — A Paradigm Shift from Facilities to Services
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Japan's 4,317 Teacher Shortage — Why No One Wants to Teach
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One Year Since Japan's Loneliness Countermeasures Act — Can We Quantify 'Connection'?
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"My Number Card Can't Be Used" — Generational Data on the Digital Divide
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20% of Japan's Water Pipes Are Past Their Service Life — Data on an Invisible Infrastructure Crisis
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The Structure of Political Distrust — What Voter Turnout and Trust Data Reveal About Japan's Democratic Crisis
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Structural Analysis of Abandoned School Small Concessions — The Institutional–Execution Gap Behind 1,951 Unused Schools
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Corporate Hometown Tax at ¥63.1 Billion — How Personnel Dispatch Is Reshaping Public Asset Regeneration
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PFS Adoption at 9% — Why Municipalities Cannot Embrace Pay-for-Success Despite Complete Institutional Infrastructure
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The Structural Gap in Priority Review Regulations — Behind the 82% Adoption Rate Lies a System That Doesn't Work
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Public Asset Utilization Research Lab
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Do You Know the 'Conditions' for Free University Tuition? — Income Limits, Multi-Child Requirements, and International Comparison
Debates
The AI and Civic Participation Dilemma — Does Automating Public Input Expand Democracy?
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Agnotology Lab — Structural Analysis of Informational Injustice and Counter-Design
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Epistemic Injustice and Information Access Gaps in NPOs — Visualizing Structures Where Voices Go Unheard
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The Inhibitory Effect of Strategic Ignorance in EBPM — How 'Pretending Not to Know' Distorts Policy
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