Seoul The economic news from Japan is grim. Exports, the lifeblood of much of the country’s economy was down 10% in September to the lowest point in 30 years reflecting the continuing aftershock of the worldwide recession, aggravated by a currently unresolved land and trade dispute with China that led the downturn. One person I …
Month: October 2012
Challenges of the Young as Workers and Students in Japan and Korea
Seoul Before leaving Tokyo, Aki Okabe, a professor of business administration at Aichi Toho University specializing in nonprofit organizations, who had been my “guide” on Saturday, as one of his friends and I walked from the anti-nuclear squat to a park in the shadow of the giant Tokyo Tower to visit with a variety of groups …
The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement
Tokyo When the world watched the daily horror of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the tragedy it brought to eastern Japan, we also then read the daily headlines as several nuclear power plants hovered near meltdown. Gayle Soto, a professor of Asian-American literature, at Meiji University told me to write down the …