Research Director: ISOYAMA Tomoyuki (Professor, Platform for Arts and Sciences)
Co-researcher: KAGEURA Ryohei (Associate Professor, Platform for Arts and Sciences)
TERANO Takao (Professor, Chiba University of Commerce)

1. Overview of research findings

I have been conducting research on governance and sustainability. As a result, I have been able to publish many results in the form of papers and essays. I am also planning to present my findings at an academic conference next year and compile them into a paper, and I have been able to make progress in my preparations.

2. Books, papers, academic presentations, etc.
[Paper (peer-reviewed)]
Kageura, Ryohei, Japanese Women's Reproductive Rights and Abortion from the Capability Approach Perspective, Journal of Sustainability at the Chiba University of Commerce, Volume 1, Separate Volume, pp. 70-81.
[Books and papers (non-peer reviewed)]
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "We can't perform our duties" - Cries from the field...But why "DOGE led by Elon Musk" is still supported in the US, PRESIDENT Online, 2025/03/11
Tomoyuki Isoyama, The secret behind the "national burden rate" falling for the first time in eight years... In fact, the "national burden amount" has increased!, Money Gendai, 2025/03/08
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The Reiwa rice riots" may continue even in the fall of 2025... The rising rice prices are a major failure of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which "continued to turn its back on the market," PRESIDENT Online, 2025/02/21
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Fuji TV Issues Raise Questions about Governance, CFO FORUM, February 17, 2025
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Japan's aging infrastructure continues unabated... "The road collapse in Yashio, Saitama is just the tip of the iceberg" - Political reasons for postponing countermeasures, PRESIDENT Online, 2025/02/05
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "Chairman of the Board from the founding family reigns as absolute authority": The real reason why scandals persist at Japanese private universities, PRESIDENT Online, 2025/01/29
Tomoyuki Isoyama, The End of New Year's Cards Sees the Beginning of the End for Japan Post...A Huge Price Increase Leads to the End of New Year's Cards, Money Gendai, 2025/01/15
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "My Number Cards Have an Expiry Date": The True Aim of the Government for Forcing the Troubled My Number Insurance Cards on the People, PRESIDENT Online, 2025/01/10
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "This is why Tokyo University students are moving to foreign consulting firms... Why increasing salaries for national civil servants won't stop the "exodus from bureaucracy," PRESIDENT Online, 2024/12/24
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "20% reduction in production capacity, 9,000 job cuts - can Nissan recover?" Management's failure to focus too much on "cutting ties with Renault," PRESIDENT Online, 2024/12/06
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The two major qualifications show clear differences... The bar exam is at rock bottom, but the certified public accountant exam is experiencing a "resurgent popularity," Money Gendai, 2024/12/03
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "Don't be swayed by the idea that it will result in a significant decrease in tax revenue..." "Unexpected benefits" that the media is not covering in the "1.03 million yen barrier problem," PRESIDENT Online, 2024/11/27
Tomoyuki Isoyama, China's real estate recession shows no end in sight. "Negative wealth effect" hits watch market, Watch Economic Observatory, LIFE IN THE LIFE, 2024/11/17
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "If Prime Minister Ishiba and President Trump were to join forces, a significant increase in defense spending would be possible... Another tiger would pose a severe challenge to the Japanese economy," PRESIDENT Online, November 11, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "Who is blocking the Democratic Party for the People's raising of the 1.03 million yen threshold? The big problem is that tax policy discussions are being held behind closed doors in the LDP Tax Commission," Money Gendai, November 7, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama: "I never thought it would rise this much" - Market surprised... "Two concerns" lurking in Tokyo Metro's "great start" to its IPO, PRESIDENT Online, October 29, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "Observing the rules is a given...!" I was surprised when I read Ishiba's LDP election pledges, and the "unusual" content, Money Gendai, 2024/10/17
Tomoyuki Isoyama: "Ishiba's support has been completely sealed..." Prime Minister Ishiba has finally indicated his intention to "continue the economic policies of the Kishida Cabinet," and his future looks bleak, PRESIDENT Online, October 11, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The census is still following the "Taisho era method"... The real reason why "statistical fraud" keeps happening in Japan," PRESIDENT Online, October 1, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Prime Minister Ishiba's sudden birth leads to a major crisis of a strong yen and falling stock prices...! Behind the scenes, the new president reveals his shocking true feelings, Money Gendai, 2024/09/30
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Corporate profits are at an all-time high, retained earnings are at an all-time high, but the labor share is at its lowest… Where have all the corporate profits gone?, Money Gendai, 2024/09/21
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "What will happen to wage increases that exceed inflation?" - Prime Minister Kishida's "heavy legacy" in the LDP presidential election for the "next prime minister," PRESIDENT Online, September 14, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Why is demand for luxury watches so strong in Japan?, Watch Economic Observatory, LIFE IN THE LIFE, 2024/09/14
Is it Tomoyuki Isoyama, Harumi Yoshida, or… Who is the best candidate to become the new leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party to compete with Shinjiro Koizumi’s “reform line” in the general election? Money Gendai, 2024/09/11
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Something strange is happening with the national "minimum wage"! The "name of the prefecture" that has overtaken Iwate Prefecture last year and fallen to "worst number 1", Money Gendai, 2024/09/04
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The acquisition of Seven & i will be an opportunity for Japanese companies...The historical significance of a shocking proposal that would have been rejected immediately a generation ago," PRESIDENT Online, August 30, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, How to distinguish candidates who are serious about "politics and money" in the LDP presidential election - For example, should they delve into "political secret funds of party branches"?, Foresight, Shinchosha, August 28, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "A downturn in domestic consumption..." - Concerns over the "distortion" that has begun to appear in the Japanese economy that relies on inbound tourism, Money Gendai, 2024/08/27
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The 2024 Problem: Four months since the tightening of regulations...But the serious reason why truck drivers' deaths from overwork have not decreased," Money Gendai, 2024/08/17
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Nikkei average fluctuations are evidence that the government and the Bank of Japan have lost to the market… The real reason why Japan cannot stop its policy of a weak yen and high stock prices, PRESIDENT Online, 2024/08/16
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "Will those who have suffered health damage be reliably compensated?" The unfortunate corporate culture exposed in the Kobayashi Pharmaceutical "Red Koji Supplement Issue," PRESIDENT Online, August 5, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The 1 trillion yen hometown tax donation is the most successful "economic measure"...But the opposition Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has still come up with a number of "foolish measures" to hold it back, Money Gendai, 2024/08/01
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The trend of Tokyo University graduates moving away from civil service jobs continues... Why they are not being selected despite the fact that their summer bonuses are clearly "blessed," PRESIDENT Online, 2024/07/22
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Is a minimum wage of 1,500 yen really "enough"? A "serious problem" that will rapidly worsen Japan's labor shortage, Money Gendai, July 13, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The Consumption Gap is Growing in Full Scale. Will Luxury Watches Be Supported by the Winning Consumers?", Watch Economic Observatory, LIFE IN THE LIFE, July 11, 2024
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "We don't want local governments to benefit from this," The unfortunate circumstances behind the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' repeated "harassment" of the booming hometown tax donation program, PRESIDENT Online, 2024/07/05
Isoyama Tomoyuki, Toyota Chairman Toyoda Akio, faces a major headwind! The approval rate for the reappointment of directors is the lowest among all candidates... The general shareholders' meeting where shareholders can fire the top executive is fast approaching, Money Gendai, 2024/07/02
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Certification Fraud Issue: Who is Really at Fault, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or Toyota? The True Meaning of "Unfair" Used in the West, PRESIDENT Online, 2024/06/21
Tomoyuki Isoyama is making a fool of the people! The unforgivable reason why the LDP chose a "third-party organization" instead of "strengthening external audits" in the revision of the Political Funds Control Act, Money Gendai, 2024/06/15
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Why a "Fixed Tax Cut" and Not a "Subsidy"? What Prime Minister Kishida, who emphasizes tax cuts to the point of requiring them to be listed on pay slips, "wants to hide," PRESIDENT Online, 2024/06/09
Tomoyuki Isoyama, The Komeito Party is the biggest resistance force to the full lifting of the ban on ride-sharing, Money Gendai, 2024/05/31
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Public pensions are getting further and further away from "100 years of security"... The unfortunate reason why the government is encouraging "a shift from savings to investment" with NISA, PRESIDENT Online, 2024/05/28
Tomoyuki Isoyama, The University Disappeared by a Founding Family Chairman of the Board: The Structure of the Shukugawa Gakuin Scandal, Foresight, Shinchosha, 2024/05/13
Tomoyuki Isoyama, If things continue as they are, traditional Japanese companies will be bought up by overseas companies... "The worst-case scenario" awaits Japan as the yen continues to weaken, PRESIDENT Online, 2024/05/09
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Population decline on the brink of maintaining social functions, but "gradual" immigration acceptance is dangerous, Money Gendai, 2024/05/07
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Japanese hotels should raise their prices to 100,000 yen per night... A surefire way for Japan to "recover its economy through inbound tourism" amid a weak yen, PRESIDENT Online, 2024/05/01
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Isn't the LDP's slush fund problem an "audit" issue? The Certified Public Accountant Association has deliberately issued a "president's statement" to avoid responsibility, Money Gendai, 2024/04/17
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Governor Kawakatsu's fault for the lack of progress on the Linear Shinkansen project... The future of the "Linear Shinkansen construction project" has disappeared and been left behind by the times, PRESIDENT Online, 2024/04/12
Tomoyuki Isoyama, "The new method of effectively increasing taxes by collecting childcare support payments through medical insurance premiums is the height of stupidity," Money Gendai, 2024/04/12
Tomoyuki Isoyama, The logistics "2024 problem" is just the beginning. The challenges for the trucking industry are yet to come, Money Gendai, 2024/04/02
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Why do people feel that "going abroad is too expensive" despite wage increases? The dangers of the unprecedented economic experiment "yen depreciation bubble," PRESIDENT Online, 2024/04/01
Ryohei Kageura, co-author, SDGs for Global Citizens, Koyo Shobo, April 10, 2025
[Conference presentations, etc.]
Kageura, Ryohei, Japanese Women's Reproductive Rights and Abortion from the Capability Approach Perspective, International Symposium “Sustainable Development and ESD”, Chiba University of Commerce, 2024.