Yuichi Yamamoto's Page

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Yamashita-cho, Yokohama-city, Japan

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freelance

Working topics/research interests - as general or specific as you like

The mainstay of my post-retirement activity is socio-political blogging. My areas of interest range from politics to culture to business to technology. But among other things, I find the subject of "E-Democracy" the most intriguing and relevant.

My approach to this topic is characterized by a method called Management of Technology. MOT is a relatively new interdisciplinary field of study burgeoning in postgraduate courses in industrialized countries. From the MOT perspective, computerizing the conventional democracy by means of e-voting or the like is one thing and E-Democracy is quite another.

I hope I can share views and information with some of the Research Cooperative’s members. I don’t believe that E-Democracy is a mere pipedream. In this Internet era, we already seem to have enabling technologies.

Preferred means of contact

Mail via my profile mail box, Comment on my profile page, Reply to my message in forum

Preferred language(s) for correspondence

English

Further details - e.g. contact information, working languages (e.g. one language for editing, or from one language to another for translation), short CV

I worked for the Japanese subsidiaries of American, Swiss and German companies mostly as a senior financial manager for almost half a century.

Last year a literary agent in New Jersey suggested I write a book about my home country. But the moment the agent read the synopsis, she subtly declined to publish it presumably because she thought my arguments outlined there were too truthful for the largely Japanophile readers in the West. Its title: "The Unviable Japan"

What are your favourite local and international research-related journals, newsletters, or 'popular' magazines? Please list no more than six examples in total, without ranking, across these six categories

I subscribe to very few journals for financial and some other reasons. I used to favorite Forbes and Commentary. But I've grown sick and tired of those neo-cons these days.

Website 1

http://www.tokyofreepress.com/

Website 2

http://www.yamafami.com/