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Japan-Bangladesh Relations: Celebrating the Fifty Years of their Ode to Joy Lopamudra Ghosh Undergraduate student (Fifth Semester) BA History Honours; Founder and President of the World Forum for Welfare Geopolitics (WFWG); Distinguished Indian Delegate representing India in the World Youth Parliament for Water (WYPW); HundrED Youth Ambassador representing India at HundrED, Helsinki, Finland; TIP Peace Ambassador of the Year 2021; TIP Human Rights Ambassador of the Year 2021; and Sponsorship Coordinator of Step. E-mail:lopamudraghosh42@gmail.com Abstract Remarkably, Japan and Bangladesh have always maintained excellent and productive relations during the past three decades despite changes in the regime in both countries. [...]

Determinants of Cultural Diversity Management in Japan: Case Studies of Hospitality Industry Ying Zhu Professor, Australian Centre for Asian Business, University of South Australia, 33-44 NorthTerrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. Email: ying.zhu@unisa.edu.au (corresponding author) Takamichi Mito Professor, the Graduate School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. Email:mito@kwansai.ac.jp Abstract Before the Covid-19 started in 2020, increasing international tourists were visiting Japan in recent years, and the hospitality industry has become a significant economic contributor to the national economy. Employing more non-Japanese employees has been a critical human resource (HR) strategy to cope with the increasing demands of foreign [...]

Emphasising Selected Macroeconomic Indicators to Revive Japanese Economic Growth from Post-COVID-19 Shock Nashia Zaman Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail: nashiazaman@du.ac.bd Abstract For its unique characteristics of the continuous revitalisation of its economy, Japan is widely known around the globe. Japan made significant contributions to the world developmental agenda in the post-World War II era. Covid-19 imposed both demand and supply shocks worldwide. Japan is not an exception. Using the Autoregressive distributed lag model for the time series data on Japan, the impact of some selected macroeconomic variables on the annual growth of gross [...]

Post-COVID-19 Japan: A Political Economy Treatise on Shocks and Therapy Abul Barkat Professor and former Chair, Department of Economics; Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail: barkatabul71@gmail.com Abstract Pandemic is a rare than usual event, and therefore, the shocking impacts of pandemic fall under the category of “uncertainty’’ than “risks”; “uncertainty” is improbabilistic and, therefore, not amenable to predictability. This paper aims at understanding the political economy essence of the shocks experienced by Japan during the post-COVID-19 pandemic and devise plausible therapy to address those shocks. The paper follows a logical order: it [...]

Post-Covid-19 Japan and Social Shocks Abdullah-Al-Mamun, PhD* Shamsunnahar** *Assistant Professor & Chairman, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Email: mamun.djs@du.ac.bd **Research Associate, Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), Bangladesh. shamsunnaharshompa@gmail.com Abstract There has been a severe erosion of social life in Japan owing to COVID-19. However, the existing literature does not provide enough evidence regarding various social shocks arising out of the Covid-19 and its impact on the society and life of the people. Thereby, applying the document analysis strategy, this research assesses the impacts of the pandemic on Japanese society, examining very recent data and attempting to [...]