This month, Tokyo College welcomed its fourth academic year since its founding in February of 2019. As I noted in the blog titled “Graduate No. 1” from this past February, Tokyo College has grown steadily over the last t…
In this blog series, we interview new members of Tokyo College. For this entry, we spoke with Dr. Yen Yen Sally RAHAYU, a Postdoctoral Fellow who joined us this April. Welcome to Tokyo College! Could you tell us a little…
Indonesia will begin the construction of Nusantara[1], the country’s new 2,560 square kilometer capital city, within the second half of 2022 with aims to inaugurate it in 2024, the year when Joko Widodo’s presidency ends…
For the past two years, visiting faraway places has been unrealistic for many people. Restricted travel and extended physical separation during the Covid-19 pandemic has made distances feel farther than ever. This has al…
At a research meeting, I had the chance to hear an individual involved in the practicalities of rehabilitating juvenile delinquents explain some common yet easily misunderstood statements made by such youth. They’re diff…
Tokyo College was established on February 1, 2019. As of the end of January, exactly three years have passed. The first picture you see here is of myself and Distinguished University Professor TOKURA on the day the Col…
You may have noticed that an interesting new batch of information was recently uploaded to the Tokyo College website. At the top of our homepage on the second row, there are links to several pages beginning with “About u…
Recently, I relocated to Tokyo and found myself nesting in Mejirodai (目白台), an old neighborhood located in Bunkyō-ku (文京区) within Tokyo’s 23 special wards. Being a Tokyoite newbie playing an urbanist role, wandering arou…
In many regions of the world, populations have grown older and fertility rates have declined, leading to populations that are shrinking and aging simultaneously. Globally, people older than 65 constitute the fastest grow…
