FROM THE EDITOR (SHIRAISHI Takashi)

CHRONOLOGY
July – August 2009

SEEKING A NEW STRATEGY FOR JAPAN’S ECONOMY (NARIAI Osamu)
East Asia’s Fancy for FTAs (KIMURA Fukunari)
Market Expansion Through Free Trade Agreements (HATAKEYAMA Noboru)
Learning to Thrive Without a Trade Surplus (MIKUNI Akio)

THE NEW GOVERNMENT’S AGENDA (TAKENAKA Harukata)
How the DPJ Will Govern (KAN Naoto)

EMPLOYMENT
The Myth of Seniority Wages (KOIKE Kazuo)
Fundamental Reform to Deal with the Employment Crisis (HIGUCHI Yoshio)

DIPLOMACY
Working Together to Promote Japan (MONJI Kenjirô)

MUSIC
Pianist Tsujii Takes the Global Stage (YOSHIHARA Mari)
Don’t Call Him the “Blind Pianist” (TSUJII Itsuko)

SUMÔ
Takamiyama: Japan’s Pioneer Foreign Rikishi (WATANABE Daigorô)

VOICES OF JAPAN
A Jûdô Champion Reflects on a Changing World (YAMASHITA Yasuhiro, interviewed by KÔNO Michikazu)

WAR RESPONSIBILITY
Carnage in Okinawa (Yomiuri Shimbun War Responsibility Reexamination Committee)