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Development of new solid state battery with gelatinized electrolyte solution containing lithium salt : Utilizing lithium-ion battery manufacturing technology and equipment
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The Feasibility of Cross-Border Cooperation between Non-Capital Cities in Asia : A Case Study of the Concept of Cross-Border Cooperation between Busan and Fukuoka
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to discuss the current situation of cross-border regions in Asia and to observe how local governments in Asia have attempted to pursue far more innovative regional policies than their overperforming capitals through a case study analysis of the conception of a Cross-Border Metropolis between Busan and Fukuoka (CBM-BF). Divergent actors, organizations and individuals of both cities, have executed various programs since the early 1960s. Both cities have attempted to find synergistic regional policies, and this has consequently led them to issue he CBM-BF declaration, in 2009. Sixty-four projects were proposed to forge a cross-border regional innovation system and subsequently specific projects, based on our main basic directions with nine specific strategies, have been carried out annually. It was found in this study that the cooperation process was primarily designed and conducted by both local governments but was still a top-down approach. The former mayor of Busans enthusiastic conviction, affected by positive formal and informal institutions, played a decisive role in crystalizing the cross-border metropolis. The CBM-BF epitomizes the feasibility of cross-border regional innovation systems (CBRIS) based on horizontal relationships, which are neither vertical nor hierarchical ones dominated by one side or the other. Korea and Japan have confronted the asymmetry of spatial structures and the excessive concentration of economic and administrative functions in capital cities, the so-called “mono-polarization in Seoul and Tokyo.” Given this context, it should be noteworthy that both cities, as non-capital regions, have autonomously attempted to propel CBRIS
MINAMI Katsumi’s Theoretical Contribution to Marx’s Capital in the 21st Century
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to publish MINAMI’s manuscripts ,with a plan to edit his main articles into a single book with comments by the author.MINAMI’s analysis of Post-Cold War capitalism based on the Internet lead to the prospective conclusion that we are leaping into a new world and entering into a transition period in human history, which is just the beginning of the net-based mode of production opening up 21st century communism (the association of free individuals).This thesis is a creative embodiment of Marx’s futuristic concept, general intellect (Allgemeine Arbeit), having been adapted since MINAMI’s article in 1969. In just the same year, the initial form of the Internet, Arpanet, was born
The Mechanism of Employment Fluctuations and Widening Economic Disparity in COVID-19
Get PDFThe degree of economic impact due to COVID-19 differs greatly depending on the industry and occupation. Economic losses make a decisive difference depending on whether the profession allows remote business or not. In other words, the spread of the coronavirus infection has widened economic disparities. However, such an economic disparity mechanism has not been properly considered. In this article, therefore, we consider what occurred in the labor market from April to December 2020. More specifically, in which industry or occupational sector did people suffer more? The purpose of this paper is to sort out the factors such as age, gender, scale, educational background, and region in detail
Financialization and Debt Trap
Get PDFThe dominance of the US economy since 1990s is mainly explained by their industrial-scale financialization, which transformed banking into a leading economic sector through financial deregulation. Financialization fostered an increase in debt-financed expenditure by households, businesses, and government.While the Great Financial Crisis laid bare the failure of financialization, the monetary policy easing and consequent low interest rates in the great recession caused the already high debt levels to continue growing. Ultra-easy monetary policy encouraged financial asset buying, spawning new types of investment vehicles, e.g. private equity funds.Consequently, the advanced economies find themselves caught in a debt trap: i.e. a trilemma of low growth, large debts, and income inequality. Yet paying down the already enormous government debt piles would make painful financial repression unavoidable. Without repression, achieved through hyperinflation and/or wealth taxation, the debt servicing burden of interest payments and principal repayments would pass on to future generations, creating a serious debt sustainability issue
