Articles and Research Archive
English introductions to the institute’s research, essays, and archived publications. Japanese originals and downloadable materials are linked from each entry.
Security Legislation and Collective Security
Yasuhide Yamanouchi discusses Japan’s security legislation, collective self-defense, deterrence, and the realist perspective in international relations. This is a historical opinion essay, and its original wording and chronology are retained on the Japanese page.
The Information Society Today: Draft Manuscript
An archival announcement of draft chapters circulated for comment in 2010. A later note states that draft publication ended after the completed book was issued as The Information Society Today: To New Netizens by NTT Publishing in 2011.
Beyond Network Neutrality: Paper
Izumi Aizu introduces a paper co-authored with Judit Bayer and published in the July 2009 issue of the Telecommunications Journal of Australia. The existing English introduction and the paper link are retained.
Interdependence and the Role of the State: A Systems Approach
A paper by Yasuhide Yamanouchi published in International Relations (Kokusai Seiji), No. 96, March 1991. The Japanese archive provides a PDF.
The Information Society Today
A paper by Shumpei Kumon of the Institute of Socio-Infonomics, Tama University, dated May 2009. The archive provides a downloadable Japanese document.
Beyond Network Neutrality
Izumi Aizu introduces his article with Judit Bayer in the Telecommunications Journal of Australia. It discusses Japan’s broadband market, IPv6 and next-generation networks, Internet interconnection, the proposed “dot Nippon” domain, and regulation of harmful mobile content, considering the usefulness and limits of a network-neutrality framework.
Promoting Parliamentary Information and Multilingual Web Content: APOINT 2001
A co-authored paper on parliamentary information and multilingual web publishing associated with the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum’s APOINT 2001 initiative. It appeared in Media and Communication, No. 51, Keio University. The source provides a Japanese PDF.
A Year in Cambodia: What Can Japan Learn from UNTAC?
Yasuhide Yamanouchi’s article in the August 1994 issue of Chuo Koron reflects on Cambodia and the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). A Japanese PDF is available in the original archive.
Systems Theory and the Formation of Order
A paper by Yasuhide Yamanouchi and Susumu Kuroishi on systems theory and the formation of order. The source page links to a Japanese PDF.
Networks, Netwars, and the Fight for the Future
A Japanese translation by Yasuhide Yamanouchi of work by David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla on networks, netwar, and future conflict. The archive links to the translated document.