Hiroshi Watanabe

Jan 9, 2025 | dx.doi.org | Yuxuan Pei |Quan Chen |Yumi Matsumiya |Hiroshi Watanabe

Sep 5, 2024 | japannews.yomiuri.co.jp | Hiroshi Watanabe

People need food and water to survive. But will we have sufficient supply of these necessities in the future? Four years ago, writing in this column, I discussed how difficult the water and food situation was likely to become going forward. At the time, I took a somewhat pessimistic view of things. So now I would like to examine whether there isn’t some light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to solving water and food insecurity. I asked whether we would have enough food and water.

Mar 22, 2024 | japannews.yomiuri.co.jp | Hiroshi Watanabe

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is now thriving as the core of world economic growth. Indeed, the regional grouping’s growth rate has surpassed that of China, whose economy has been under pressure to conduct major restructuring. Where does ASEAN’s strength come from? It groups 10 Southeast Asian countries covering a combined 4.5 million square kilometers, or 3.2% of the world’s land area, and is home to 680 million people, equal to 8.5% of the global population.

Aug 12, 2023 | arxiv.org | Hiroshi Watanabe

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Aug 3, 2023 | japannews.yomiuri.co.jp | Hiroshi Watanabe

By Hiroshi Watanabe / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun Japan has made little progress in reforming its universities, despite much discourse on this being a pressing issue. Amid the decline in new enrollments, university administrators are focused entirely on how to enable their institutions to survive or how to secure the financial resources for university operations.