Rumi Aoyama

Jul 6, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Hiroshi Ono |Sourabh Gupta |Rumi Aoyama |Kyuseok Kim

There is a significant shift occurring in the Japanese labour market. The model of work that supported Japan’s economic rise in the postwar period is meeting its demise. In that era, the ideal worker for Japanese companies was hired straight out of university, worked long hours, socialised extensively after work and committed oneself to a lifetime with the same employer. Today, the assumptions behind the ideal worker are outdated, and the model itself is no longer sustainable.

Jun 30, 2024 | bangladeshpost.net | Rumi Aoyama

Japan is one of the countries most affected by geopolitical competition between the United States and China. Although the economies of Japan and China seem to be on the first track of economic decoupling in many ways as a result, they are actually only experiencing a period of structural economic change. Contrary to the prevailing perception, Japanese initiative, not the US–China rivalry, is driving the structural shifts in Japan’s economic security policy.

Jun 29, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Wanning Sun |Marina Yue Zhang |Sourabh Gupta |Rumi Aoyama

TikTok is one of the most downloaded and used apps among young people in the United States. But despite its popularity, the US Congress’ decision to force TikTok to sell or face a ban is just the latest move against the app. TikTok filed a lawsuit in response, claiming that the law violated the First Amendment of the US Constitution. But whether the app can win this battle remains uncertain.

Jun 27, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Sourabh Gupta |William Jones |Rumi Aoyama |Jiannan Luo

The third plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CPC) 20th Central Committee in July 2024 comes at a critical juncture for an economy beset by profound challenges. Successful third plenary sessions include the December 1978 meeting, which shifted the CPC’s focus from ‘waging class struggle’ to ‘socialist modernisation’ and the November 1993 session, which established the ‘socialist market economy’ system.

Jun 26, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Rumi Aoyama |Richard Pomfret |Jiannan Luo |Kyuseok Kim

Japan is one of the countries most affected by geopolitical competition between the United States and China. Although the economies of Japan and China seem to be on the first track of economic decoupling in many ways as a result, they are actually only experiencing a period of structural economic change. Contrary to the prevailing perception, Japanese initiative, not the US–China rivalry, is driving the structural shifts in Japan’s economic security policy.