Japan Study as a Public Good in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Declining Birthrate and Aging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Japanese Social Welfare System Reform and Transformation of Social Governance

      • Jin-wen Song, Lin Huang

      Pages 3-15

   3. Aging Population, Decreasing Birthrate and National Security: Searching for the Possibility of Cooperation Between Japan and Korea

      • Kijeong Nam

      Pages 17-27

3. Technological Innovation and Societal Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Impact of Modern Technology on Japanese Studies

      • Benjamin Wai-ming Ng

      Pages 31-36

   3. Social Technology Research in Japan as a Public Good

      • Qiu-ju Wang

      Pages 37-44

   4. The New Overseas Chinese in Japan: What Case Studies Tell Us

      • Yong-Feng Xing

      Pages 45-51

4. Robust Society Against Natural Disasters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. People with Different Abilities and Disaster—Lessons Learned from Jogjakarta, Post-earthquake 2006–2016

      • Ikaputra

      Pages 55-59

   3. The Effectiveness of Advertising Media Channels in Encouraging Travel to a Post-disaster Destination: A Case in Japan

      • Mei Huang

      Pages 61-65

This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia. For the future, the focus should be on Japan, which can provide "common knowledge" as a public good. The book collects the results of researchers in Japan, China, South Korea, and Indonesia on declining birthrates and aging, rapid technological innovation and societal changes, and recovery from natural disasters.

Chapter 1 covers Japanese social welfare system reform and transformation of social governance. Chapter 2 deals with the decreasing birthrate and national security. Chapters 3 to 5 discuss three aspects of the impact of modern technology on Japanese society. Chapter 6 and 7 include the research results on recovery from the earthquake disasters in Indonesia and East Japan. 

Through reading this book, the increasingly necessity to capture Japanese studies in Asia as a public good can be understood. The authors believe that sharing of knowledge as a public good is of great help in solving problems for the future.

• Common knowledge as a public good
• Declining birthrate
• Aging society
• Technological innovation
• Differently abled
• Social welfare system reform

• Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

  Lin Huang

• Beijing Center for Japanese Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China

  Jin-wen Song

• Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

  Kijeong Nam

• Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Benjamin Wai–ming Ng

• Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

  Qiu-ju Wang

• Shandong University, Jinan, China

  Yong-Feng Xing

• Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

  Ikaputra

• Xihua University, Chengdu, China

  Mei Huang

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