JCIE in the Media
Explore English-language articles written by or featuring JCIE staff and senior fellows, coverage of JCIE events, and stories written by JCIE’s US-Japan Journalism Fellows. For Japanese language articles click here.
Japan in Transition: Economic Realities Mean Japan Must Confront its Reluctance to Accept Immigrants
Toshihiro Menju (JCIE) is interviewed by John Shmuel | Financial Post
August 17, 2016
Japan is currently home to the world’s most rapidly aging population, while declining birth rates and low immigration mean Japan is expected to lose a million people a year in the coming decades. Depo…
Flush, then Fill Up: Japan Taps Sewage to Fuel Hydrogen-Powered Cars
Julie Makinen | Los Angeles Times
July 31, 2016
When Mutsuro Yuji, chief of the central sewage plant in Fukuoka, first heard about the idea of making hydrogen from biogas — the combination of methane and carbon dioxide produced by the breakdown of…
Citizen Science Takes on Japan's Nuclear Establishment
Julie Makinen | Los Angeles Times
July 27, 2016
As other Tokyo office workers poured into restaurants and bars at quitting time one recent evening, Kohei Matsushita went to the eighth floor of a high-rise for an unusual after-hours activity: learni…
What’s Hot in Japan Right Now? Los Angeles, Circa 1976
Julie Makinen | Los Angeles Times
July 19, 2016
Julie Makinen highlights the social fascination with a 40 year-old Japanese magazine depicting West Coast life, and how reactions to it have changed or stayed the same among Japanese readers.
As Japan's Population Shrinks, Bears and Boars Roam Where Schools and Shrines Once Thrived
Julie Makinen | Los Angeles Times
July 10, 2016
In Hara-izumi, there’s no worry about an influx of foreigners. There are no immigrants here, nor the prospect of any. A bigger issue now is wildlife: The village’s population has become so sparse that…
No TPP Trade Deal? Some Japanese Farmers Say All the Better for Them
Julie Makinen | Los Angeles Times
July 5, 2016
Rice farmer Takao Terada isn’t following the U.S. presidential election too closely. But there’s one issue that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seem to agree on — that the U.S. should not ratify…