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AY 2008

Living in Globalized Society - Japan in Era of Global-scale Competition (Global Focus on Knowledge)

Currently we live in the era when globalization advances rapidly. Trends of wage standards in China and Vietnam influence Japanese corporations’ selection of locations and, by extension, make an impact on domestic employment. The decline in American house prices destabilizes financial capital markets both at home and abroad, and further, has control of business trends. If globalization is referred to as free movements of capital, goods and people crossing national boundaries thereby strengthening the degree of the world unification, this process in the economic field is bringing the Japanese economy into that of the world as an inseparable part, and is greatly changing the state of our nation including activities of Japanese corporations, our economic and social lives as workers and consumers. This lecture, by focusing on the development of such economic globalization and its impact upon Japan, viewing from several perspectives like capital, goods and people, will clarify positive and negative effects they exert to our nation’s economy and society, and will put thought into the way our nation should be in the epoch of global-scale competition.

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Globalization Pertaining to Flow of Money, and Japan

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#2 Subprime Loan and World’s Financial Capital Markets

In the wake of the turbulence in financial capital markets triggered by the collapse of the bubble of American house prices, the lecture deliberates effects the affair exerts on the world economy that is progressing toward globalization, its repercussions on prices of crude oil and food, and the way policy responses should be.

Lecturer | Kazuo Iwata
1:22
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#3 Crude/Food Prices and International Money Flow

In the wake of the turbulence in financial capital markets triggered by the collapse of the bubble of American house prices, the lecture deliberates effects the affair exerts on the world economy that is progressing toward globalization, its repercussions on prices of crude oil and food, and the way policy responses should be.

Lecturer | Kazuo Iwata
1:33
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#4 Globalization and Monetary Policy

In the wake of the turbulence in financial capital markets triggered by the collapse of the bubble of American house prices, the lecture deliberates effects the affair exerts on the world economy that is progressing toward globalization, its repercussions on prices of crude oil and food, and the way policy responses should be.

Lecturer | Kazuo Iwata
1:33
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Economic Globalization and People’s Livelihood

1:26
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#10 Way of Life: Declining Birthrate and Aging Population, and Change in Family

While globalization is often grasped from a macroscopic perspective, it is also “people” that constitutes the current of globalization. What would come into sight if we seize the current and movement of “people” from the viewpoint of population, family and society? Let’s give thought to globalization of economy from the standpoint of people who actually live.

Lecturer | Sawako Shirahase
1:26
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1:27
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#11 Changing Labor Market: Regular Employment and Nonregular Employment, Participation in Labor by Aliens, Aged, and Females

While globalization is often grasped from a macroscopic perspective, it is also “people” that constitutes the current of globalization. What would come into sight if we seize the current and movement of “people” from the viewpoint of population, family and society? Let’s give thought to globalization of economy from the standpoint of people who actually live.

Lecturer | Sawako Shirahase
1:27
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1:26
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#12 Changing Socioeconomic System: Continued Disparities and Institutional Reform

While globalization is often grasped from a macroscopic perspective, it is also “people” that constitutes the current of globalization. What would come into sight if we seize the current and movement of “people” from the viewpoint of population, family and society? Let’s give thought to globalization of economy from the standpoint of people who actually live.

Lecturer | Sawako Shirahase
1:26
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