日本

Pequeño texto (tres páginas) sobre el origen del Estado japonés partiendo del desarrollo de sus estructuras políticas en la antigüedad japonesas (períodos Yayoi y Kofun) así como el consolidamiento del apartado simbólico-ideológico de estas estructuras que configuran hasta hoy el Estado como la figura del Tenno o la inspiración budista de influencia china en sus leyes.

Presentado para concurso de la revista Desperta Ferro, 1500 palabras como máximo.

In Japan, the suburbia used to represent a space where an affluent middle class could realise its home-ownership aspirations. But these suburbs are now vulnerable to cumulative processes of decline which are deteriorating daily access to urban resources. Such changes raise precursory questions about the necessity to adapt growth-based paradigms to the challenges of suburban aging. Our thesis analyses them through the lens of evolving mobilities in the Ōsaka metropolitan area. It opens the way for an integrated approach to the impacts of the neoliberal hybridization of the Japanese Developmental State on the country’s second-city region, whose dynamics are destabilized by the Tōkyō uni-polar concentration and shrinking demographics. First, our theoretical framework articulates international debates on the globalization of the shrinking city phenomenon, to Japanese research who questions the links between urban de-growth, ageing and mobilities by drawing on Western concepts. Then, a m...

"During the last century, because of its economic and industrial achievements
the country of Japan has always been in the focus of attention for both ordinary
people and social and political elites in Iran. In the present research project we
aim at finding an answer to the question of to what extent Iranian have become
acquainted with Japan. By introducing and analyzing all printed works about
Japan we try to specify the scope of Japanese studies in Iran, and at the same
time to introduce to the readers the areas in which the greatest number of works
have been published.
Our method for performing this project is the “historical method”.
Accordingly, all the data about Japan left from the past one hundred years are
gathered, analyzed and shown in quantitative diagrams. The data itself
comprises all the books, articles, dissertations, research projects and reports
published in Iran during the last century.
It appears from the results of the present research that Japanese studies in
Iran is still in its infancy, even though it has now made a considerable progress
compared to the beginning. This situation is in a way contradicting the claims
made both before and after the Islamic revolution that Japan is an appropriate
model for economic and industrial development in Iran."

Is the growing security relationship between Japan and Australia sustainable and appropriate? Long closely tied through trade and investment, economic interdependence is now complemented by Australia-Japan military ties that are far deeper and more compelling than is usually realised in either country—as symbolized by the 2007 Joint Security Declaration.  Both countries rely on US extended nuclear deterrence, yet in 2008 they established the joint International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.