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No.20	[06/'14]	JAPAN TIMES Patriotism article
No.19	[07/'10]	The hidden threats to Japan's society
No.18	[05/'10]	Japan's dual challenge: how to generate ideas and communicate effectively in English?
No.17	[02/'10]	Capitalism, also a Japanese love story?
No.16	[01/'10]	Japan's future: gloom or glimmer?
No.15	[10/'09]	A New Age for Japan?
No.14	[04/'09]	Momentous times: the London G20 and its implications
No.13	[11/'08]	Japan's inner strengths and its future world role
No.12	[10/'08]	Karoshi: Corporate abuse of traditional 'loyalty'
No.11	[07/'08]	The dramatic rise in Western-style dining since the 1990s
No.10	[06/'08]	Reducing carbon emissions: The limits of voluntarism
No.9	[03/'08]	How the Showa spirit can help fight global warming
No.8	[12/'07]	Businessmen and bureaucrats: uneasy bedfellows
No.7	[11/'07]	The new social classes and the rise of poverty (*)
No.6	[10/'07]	Healthcare: Japan's excellent system but beware the free market
No.5	[09/'07]	Why British trains don't run on time... and the Japanese do
No.4	[05/'07]	Showa Nostalgia, Part II (*)
No.3	[04/'07]	Why the Showa nostalgia? (*)
No.2	[12/'06]	The Identity Issue (*)
No.1	[08/'06]	Thoughts on Japan at the start of the 21st century.
Note: Essays marked (*) are not available on this website, as the text has been incorporated into my new book, "Showa Japan: the Post-War Golden Age and its Troubled Legacy", details of which you can find by clicking here.

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