Japan Study as a Public Good in Asia (SpringerBriefs in Economics)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Japanese Social Welfare System Reform and Transformation of Social Governance (Jin-wen Song, Lin Huang)....Pages 3-15 Aging Population, Decreasing Birthrate and National Security: Searching for the Possibility of Cooperation Between Japan and Korea (Kijeong Nam)....Pages 17-27 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 The Impact of Modern Technology on Japanese Studies (Benjamin Wai-ming Ng)....Pages 31-36 Social Technology Research in Japan as a Public Good (Qiu-ju Wang)....Pages 37-44 The New Overseas Chinese in Japan: What Case Studies Tell Us (Yong-Feng Xing)....Pages 45-51 Front Matter ....Pages 53-53 People with Different Abilities and Disaster—Lessons Learned from Jogjakarta, Post-earthquake 2006–2016 ( Ikaputra)....Pages 55-59 The Effectiveness of Advertising Media Channels in Encouraging Travel to a Post-disaster Destination: A Case in Japan (Mei Huang)....Pages 61-65