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Roundtable Japan

Roundtable Japan is a bilingual podcast on modern and contemporary Japan sponsored by the Toshiba International Foundation. This series brings together scholars and experts from around the world to discuss a single theme each time. Topics will be selected from major themes in modern and contemporary society. Each episode will be accompanied by transcripts and/or subtitles, a reading list, etc., to make it accessible to the broadest audience possible. 公益財団法人 東芝国際交流財団のご提供でお届けするラウンドテーブル・ジャパン (Roundtable Japan)は、近現代日本に関するポッドキャストです。このシリーズでは、世界中の専門家や当事者が、現代社会などの主要テーマを毎回1つ選んで議論します。各エピソードには、できるだけ幅広い視聴者層にお楽しみいただけるように、文字おこし(トランスクリプト)や字幕、関連文献なども併せて公開されます。
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Episodes

Navigating the Challenges of Japanese Studies Pedagogy at Universities in Japan

More than fifteen years have passed since the Japanese Ministry of Education’s Global 30 project, which encouraged universities to accept more international students and was followed by a series of other projects that led to an increase in English-medium instruction (EMI) across faculties, newly-designed English-taught programs (ETP), and the concomitant hiring of many scholars with doctoral degrees from non-Japanese institutions. During this period, the term kokusai-nihongaku became a floating ...

May 31, 202547 minEp. 2

Has Japan solved the problem of homelessness?

“Has Japan solved the problem of homelessness? And even if it has not, what lessons for other countries does the Japanese experience have to offer? According to Japanese government statistics, Japan’s street homeless population peaked in 2003 at 25,296. The figure for 2023 was 2,830 – 2,575 men, 172 women, and 73 ‘unclear’. That is an 89% decline. Of course these figures must be treated with caution, but there seems little doubt that Japan’s street homeless population is far lower than most othe...

Jan 16, 20251 hr 2 minEp. 1
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