This paper focuses on telework, which has become to be used widespread after the spread of COVID-19 infection. We discuss companies' strategy that have introduced telework and contributed to improving the work-life balance of female employees. We do not only consider on the cases of companies that accomplished the improvement the work-life balance of female, but also think about the problems of companies that have to cancelled telework. So that, we mention the significance of telework and how to introduce telework.

The essence of the Japanese tea culture is nothing but an exchange in the tea ceremony called "Chaji" that lasts about four hours. It is thought that this exchange can only be established between trained people, but in order to continue the culture, it is important to gain the support of a wide range of people and expand the base. This time, we examined the extent to which the relationship between the main customers, which was considered difficult, was established in the tea ceremony experience mainly for amateurs through the newly developed tea ceremony experience site. As a result, it was shown that sufficient formal exchange could be established between the host and the guest.

This paper investigates the "Inactivity" state of the network society and its causes through a philosophical analysis of "Boredom" in the COVID-19 pandemic. The current "Boredom" is a result of communication failure. According to the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which considers modern society as an aggregate of actors, each actor’s relationship with each other forms a network society, and thus "Boredom" can be regarded as a state of "Inactivity" in society. The state of "Inactivity" arises from the contradiction between actors who exist in relation to others and actors who must exist on their own.

Local broadcasters' responsiblilities for disaster reporting have been in the midst of major changes in the surrounding environment, according to the declining population , away youth from TV and radio, and the rise of SNS. It has also been pointed out that there are changes such as the widespread use of online media. We will discuss the new role of local broadcasting stations in the event of a disaster, including the Nankai Trough earthquake, whose possibility of occurrence within the next 30 years is increasing to 70-80%, through interviews, and reviews of previous studies.

The purpose of this research is to examine the possibility of sustainable development of the sharin g economy, regarding the problem of public transportation using the sharing economy and its problems in the regions where the population is decreasing and it is difficult to maintain public transportation.

Local crowdfunding has an important role in local activation. However, local crowdfunding is administrated under unfavorable conditions, and most local crowdfunding sites use the systems provided by major crowdfunding companies, which makes them susceptible to the policy changes of such major crowdfunding companies. In February 2021, one of the system providers significantly changed the service policy and terminated the specialized system for local crowdfunding. This study examines how the users of the system adapted themselves to the environmental change. In addition, trends of other local crowdfunding sites during the same period are introduced.

This research aims to examine the role of local NPOs as a driving force for building creative communities with citizens, and to test hypotheses about the sustainability of local NPOs and their activities as “projects.” The case study of BEPPU PROJECT, an NPO in Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, shows how the acceptance of the “Citizen’s Cultural Festival Project” by its fans and sympathisers has fostered a sense of trust in the local community and fostered citizens’ pride in living in a creative city. Applying the theory of “project ecology” (Grabher, 2002) to the local context, the practical example of a citizen-led project in Beppu City points to a possible norm for autonomous community building by citizens in other areas with similar social problems.

One of the basic principles of smart city initiatives in Japan is "to be aware of the citizens’ perspective and emphasize the positive efforts of the citizens themselves." As the ideal way, it is necessary to make efforts to encourage the active participation of citizens, and to educate and explain the residents who will be the data providers in the data-driven society. Through case studies, we confirm that successful cases have the commonality of having open places where people and government can interact with each other and creating education and opportunities to raise interest in social issues with the participation of residents.

Improving the Internet usage environments for children has become an international policy issue. International cooperation is one of the policy issues in the basic plan of the Japanese government’s policy of child protection on the Internet. Based on this study conducted a text analysis of the OECD’s Child Protection Recommendations which take international policies for youth protection, and the articles of Japan’s Youth Internet Environment Improvement Law. As a result, Japanese law focused on measures to prevent the viewing of harmful content. In contrast, it became clear that the OECD Recommendation also pays close attention to the need to respect the benefits of the Internet While aiming to protect children.

Promotion of recurrent education is an essential issue for the sustainable development of society. Most of the previous studies have concerned the perspective of the organizations that implement recurrent education. Fewer studies have been conducted from the perspective of students, who should be the key beneficiaries. Here, we focused on women with elementary and junior high school children as the subjects of recurrent education and surveyed to clarify their interest in recurrent education and its factors. As a result, we found that most of them were interested in recurrent education, but they were unwilling to spend money on it. The results also found that people with high educational background, higher education norms, and a high estimate of the effectiveness of recurrent education showed a high interest in recurrent education.

The number of inductions of AI and IoT technologies has recently increased in primary and secondary industries, needless to say in the tertiary sector, because of pioneering a new market developing AI and IoT technologies. This advancement has enhanced automatization and unmanned, such as in manufacturing industries. Year to year, our conventional employment opportunities have decreased, and other employees have increased significantly in the tertiary sector. Therefore, especially newcomers must recognize this situation and know what skills we should learn to work for such a society. For these reasons, we investigated and considered psychoanalysis and scholar or attainments test, which are essential on our new employment support service ideas.

This paper explains the Students Meet Internationally through Language Education (SMILE) project and its review by participants in the SMILE symposium held at February 2021. We arranged two Japanese high schools and two Taiwanese high schools connected with online meeting tools in the SMILE project. By using those tools, both high school students made English conversations. The project helped the students and teachers by supporting their international communication and providing a learning support system named Dialogbook we had developed.

The aim of this paper is to examine quantitatively clarified , we conducted a GIS-based cluster analysis of the locations of open data-engaged and non-engaged municipalities throughout Japan to quantitatively identify the areas where each municipality is concentrated.As a result, the spatial concentration of open data initiative municipalities was similar to that of all municipalities, with the most concentrated hotspot clusters in the center of Tokyo, Osaka, and Sapporo.The clusters of municipalities that have not yet tackled open data were located in the northern Kanto region, the southern part of central Osaka, the northern part of central Nagoya, central Hokkaido Sorachi, southern Hokkaido Donan, southern Iwate Prefecture, western Fukushima Prefecture, southern Hiroshima Prefecture, and southern Shikoku. In the future, encouraging the municipalities that form these clusters to work on open data will be an effective way to achieve a 100% open data rate.

Due to the influence of COVID-19, the momentum for utilizing ICT in school education is increasing. In this research, we combine the conventional viewpoint of open data promotion in the local region with the practice of ICT utilization in the field of school education. Based on the above, we will explores the possibility of new open data promotion and regional vitalization methods. The usefulness of the proposed method was confirmed through the implementation of various empirical events.

In this presentation, I first showed that governments pursuing current "digital reforms" have been pursuing the same goals, repeating the same mistakes, and using the same methods for the past 20 years. Then, I showed a quantitative method of ascertaining the tenure and concurrent duties of IT ministers and the status of IT strategy headquarters meetings in order to understand the status of political leadership, with the aim of examining the methods used to understand and evaluate the progress and success of the reforms. If the numbers are better than in the past, we may be able to conclude that the reform is on its way to success, and that there is less concern about repeating the digital defeat.

This paper analyzes the break point of the global spread of mobile technology in 178 countries and regions, classified into six groups (developed countries, ASEAN, transition countries, BRICS, African countries, and others). It was found that 1997 was the average year of acceleration of mobile phone penetration in developed countries. BRICS, transition countries, ASEAN, and African countries followed and their average acceleration year ranged from 2002 to 2004. These findings can contribute to the detailed analyses, such as estimating the separated period of economic impacts that are caused by the spread of mobile technology.

This paper is to investigate the competitive advantage business model in Digital Transformation (DX) that Japanese companies are aiming for. To that end, We will research the GAFA platform business. Then, we will analyze how GAFA built the platform business by what kind of management strategy from both the perspective of making a competitive advantage business model and the perspective of making a competitive advantage model sustainable, and Clarify the ideal way of a competitive business model in DX.

This study aims to reconsider the idea of ‘innovator' in the theory of innovation diffusion theory to explore the interaction between technology and humans. We build a framework based on uses and gratifications theories to explain why innovators are continuously attracted by ‘newness' of innovations. Based on a survey sample of smartphone users, we examined the moderating role of innovativeness between gratifications by innovation uses and further inclination to uses of innovations. Results demonstrated that innovativeness are affected by SNS uses, social interaction and self-presentation (uses and gratifications attributes) and had stable effects to attachment, continuous uses and absorption (attributes of innovations).

IoT and ICT technology promote productivity in agriculture. E-commerce helps small scale farmer access to market and increase farmers income. This paper shows the Chinese strategy with 2 case studies. One is greenhouse farming with IoT/ICT technology in Shandong Shouguang, and farmers livestreams case.

Through an analysis of the repertoire of protests used by the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement, this paper reveals the aspect of the BLM movement that is not a protest against current political power, but a struggle by “judgement” against structural racial problems in the United States.

This study aims to understand the characteristics of public relations and activities by the government taken during the COVID-19 expansion period of 2020. Such a method of public persuasion includes employing “official media.” The characteristics of these policy messages include building "security and trust" between the public, the government and administrative agencies. Our analysis from texts in major social media from China concludes that the following tactics were used. 1) "Diversion": emphasizing "the country’s actions and their effectiveness" from the focus on COVID-19; 2) "Ingratiating": Complimenting the contributions of stakeholders (e.g. medical personnel, military); 3) “Rectification & Guiding”: which involves using the power of influential scientists and announcers to avoid the spread of misinformation. This study also suggests that the government and administrative organizations in power are setting the agenda. The goal is to persuade the public to respond and engage in their messages. The public then expects the desired results and a regaining of “normalcy”. Therefore, putting emphasis on the importance of “harmonious social values”.

This study clarifies that the decision-making process regarding E-Government policy in Japan, and how E-Government policy has evolved as a national project from the perspective of the “deliberative demokratie” theory and the “policy window” model. As a result, it became clear that there was a certain agreement between the ruling party and the opposition party over the E-Government policy, although there were various interests and concerns. However, it was not possible to mention the trends in public opinion regarding e-government policy and the changes in that policy so far, and these problems remained as issues.

This paper investigates the social media presence of 156 foreign embassies located in Japan. It identifies 89 Twitter and 99 Facebook accounts by 110 embassies and then reviews the annual trends in opening accounts. It also compares the Twitter accounts by correlation between average follower growth and average number of tweets per operation month. It points out the correlation can be classified using 4 indicators: “productive”, “unproductive”, “efficient” and “inefficient”.

As globalization proceeds, English is becoming regarded as more and more important around the world. The dominance of English has evoked a range of controversy, but views differ even among its critics. The point is whether languages are exchangeable or not. To clarify the relation between language and culture, this paper first look into linguistic relativity. Laboratory experiments by cognitive linguists clearly show that language has inherent properties to affect our thought. But this is not the whole story. Language can influence our thought through not-inherent ways. That is, English has an ideological function in the globalizing world. Our world is increasingly dominated by neoliberalist market system, where everything is becoming exchangeable commodities. This was not the case decades ago, where colonialism was powered by the tight connection between language and culture. Thus, finding an alternative to neoliberalist globalization is the prerequisite for overcoming the dominance of English

In this paper, we will first review the definition of game engagement in psychology based on the Game Engagement Questionnaire (GEQ) and the definition of "flow" proposed by Csikszentmihalyi and the conditions under which it occurs. Flow will be next analyzed from a philosophical perspective, and we will clarify the relationship between flow and mind-body from the point of view of mind-body dualism. Then, we will examine the difference between flow as a positive concept and absorption as a negative one (in a sense similar to game addiction) and consider what elements can be mobilized in gamification. In the process, GEQ itself will also be re-examined.

This paper develops Keynesian Disequilibrium Dynamics model that integrates the Calvo type New Keynesian model and the Iwai's Disequilibrium Dynamics model and does numerical calculation in order to investigate model's property. Keynesian Disequilibrium Dynamics model is based by the Calvo type New Keynesian model, and is built by quantity constrains of traditional Keynesian model. The Canonical New Keynesian model is difficult for showing the quantity constrains (the principle of effective demand), but our Keynesian Disequilibrium Dynamics model shows the quantity constraints in the fixed price and disequilibrium economy.

This report clarifies in which fields and domains people show positive/negative attitudes toward the use of personal data, in cases where personal data is used to realize a better society through AI-based prediction. The results of the survey showed that, in relative terms, predictions of accidents and illnesses were legitimized, but predictions of the reliability of speech and behaviour were not. However, we also found that some respondents did not make such distinctions. It remains to be seen in which people and in which contexts they are more (or less) likely to make such distinctions.

The purpose of this study is to clarify the reality of infertility treatment patients as seen on Twitter, and to examine its role as a medium. The target of the analysis was the content of posts by 1000 users who had entered the keyword "fertility treatment" in their Twitter profiles.

The spread of COVID-19 infections has dramatically altered the socioeconomic environment. In order to prevent the spread of infection, policies that restrict people’s behavior are effective. The spread of COVID-19 infections has also caused significant damage to the economy. There is a trade-off between preventing the spread of infection and revitalizing the economy. In this study, we examined the impact of media contact on forming people’s opinions under these circumstances. On the one hand, mass media exposure positively affects the opinion, which emphasizes preventing infection. On the other hand, social media exposure positively affects opinion, which emphasizes economic revitalization.

This study investigates the different and common parts of the perception of risk characteristics of COVID-19 in 10 nations. We conducted a cross-national survey from February 8 to March 18 in Asia, Europe, and America. We obtained the data from 3170 samples (age 20-84) and analyzed it by statistical method. It reveals that, although the factor construct was different in respective countries, the factors of "Dread" and "Unknown" are common in each country. In an additional analysis, we also find the increase of Dread factor score and the decrease of Unknown factor score associate with trust for public information sources.