Response to Change in Matured Economy and Society-Comparative Study of Japan and United Kingdom

作为成熟的经济社会，日本和英国都面临着一系列共同的新问题。这对社会上的每一个研究人员都是一个巨大的挑战。由于这些问题的多面性，必须以跨学科的方式进行研究。响应变化的主题包含了广泛的主题要研究，但我们必须是有选择性的，由于预算和时间的限制。考虑到两所大学各自的实力，我们确定了以下七个主题作为我们的专业重点。日本和英国的学者在一篇联合论文或两篇单独的论文中共同探讨了对衰落产业的援助、私有化的政治、薪酬制度的变化、企业的创新、土地价格问题、城市规划和隐私保护。在过去的三年里，每年都有一个Hitotsubashi团队访问Sheffield， Sheffield团队访问Hitotsubashi，都是由3-4个项目参与者组成，他们只有部分预算的资金支持，并举行联合研讨会，以讨论研究结果并进行指定主题的实地研究。个别论文的英文初稿已经完成，目前正在翻译成日文。我们计划同时发行英语和日语两种版本。我们的报告不仅针对英国的日本学家和日本的亲英派，也针对对成熟经济社会对变化的反应感兴趣的更多读者。

Both Japan and the United Kingdom face a common set of new problems as mature economic societies. This presents a big challenge to every researcher oin the sociences. Because of their multi-faceted nature these problems have to be studied in an interdeciplinary manner. The subject of response to change contains a wide range of topics to be studied, but we have to be sellective due to budget and time constraints. The following seven topics were identified for our major focus, considering the respective strength of the two universities.assistance to declining industries, politics of privatization, changing pay system, innovation by firms, land price issue, urban planning, and protection of privacyEach topic was tackled jointly by Japanese and UK scholars either in a joint paper or two separate papers. Every year for the past three years, a Hitotsubashi team visited Sheffield and a Sheffield team visited Hitotsubashi, both consisting of 3-4 project participants who were supported financially only partly by the budget, and held a joint seminar in order to discuss the result of the study as well as undertaking field study in assigned topic.English draft of individual papers have already been completed and they are now being translated into Japanese. We planto publish both English and Japanese versions. We address our report not only to English Japanologists and Japanese Anglophiles but also to greater audience interested in the response to change by matured economic society.