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Affairs which may erode trust in the mass media have recently happened one after another. They were not management or sales scandals, but ones casting a doubt on the manner of gathering and reporting news, which are the core operation of the mass media. Many of them were caused by publishing companies and TV stations.

Read more of the article entitled 'Publishing Companies and TV stations: The Structure of Problematic News Reporting'

The following quotation is part of the explanation about the new trial process that a judge gave to people who had been selected as citizen judges in a mock court simulating a trial by citizen judges in which I was involved:

Read more of the article entitled 'Public Involvement in Judiciary: “Citizen Judges” Play the Leading Part'

Before the Japanese economy rapidly grew, there was an obvious difference between urban (e.g., cities and towns) and rural areas in Japan. When the modern municipality system was established in Japan in 1889, even districts which were regarded not as cities, but as towns had small but condensed urban areas.

Read more of the article entitled 'Polar Opposite Values: Considering Depopulated Areas '

We thought that the avian flu might have been that new strain, but surprisingly enough, it turned out to be another new flu, swine flu, which was suddenly contracted from pigs in Mexico in April 2009.

Read more of the article entitled 'EXPERT OPINION : New Influenza: Is Quarantine a Rational Measure?'

The economic crisis which began with the collapse of the American subprime loan market in 2007 and the Lehman Brothers shock of 2008 has led to a series of losses throughout the world and caused a global recession that has no end in sight.

Read more of the article entitled 'Towards a Base for 21st Century Civil Society - Creating corporation law from Japan'