EconomistJapan.com: Celebrate Neumann's &Japan's gifts to humanity since 1945, all Asia Rising 1960+MacraeFriends and FamilyFuture History
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EntrepreneurialRevolution.city July 2020..If you care about two out of 3 lives mattering who are Asian, nearly 60 years of miracles mapping around worldwide decision-makers considering Japan from 1962 are worth replaying -that's when my father Norman Macrae aged 39 was privileged to write his first signed survey in The Economist -the first 2 quarters of dad's 80+ years of life had been spent
**writing unsigned leaders in The Economist (eg as only journalist at Messina's birth of EU) after serving as teenager in world war 2 navigating air places uk bomber command region modern day bangladesh/myanmar -
** following his father who worked for british diplomatic services around embassies in midst of conflict - eg mostow of stalin 1934, last adriatic port jews used to escape hitler 1938 )-during this quarter dad concluded that world wars root cause was the history of empires like britain and japan which had trapped most peoples in poverty, to end war he wanted to mediated loving each other's places, ;peoples and especially children

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Asia Rising Surveys

Norman Macrae, having survived teenage navigation of RAF planes bomber command world war 2 over modern-day myanmar/bangladesh, joined The Economist in 1949, and retired as the deputy editor of what he called "the world's favourite viewspaper" in 1988. During that time, he wrote extensively on the future of society and the impact of technology. Norman foresaw species sustainability as being determined by post-colonial and virtual mapmaking- 5G 4G 3G 2G 1G 0G if 60s tech could race to moon and Moore alumni promised 100 times more machine intel every decade TO 2025, let's end poverty mediating/educating a world of loving each others' children- so that wherever the next millennials girl is born she enjoys great chance to thrive.

Soon Norman was celebrating his wartime enemy's rising engineers and win-win sme supply chains across far east and very concerned that tod down constitutions english speaking nations led by political bureaucrats wasn't fit for entrepreneurial revolution-he co-opted a young romani prodi to translate Economist 1976 ER survey into multilingual formats

Amongst some of his more outlandish claims: that governments would not only reverse the nationalisation process and denationalise formerly private industries, but would also sell industries and services that had been state operated for so long that it seemed impossible that they could be run by private companies. A pioneer before the pioneers, Macrae imagined privatised and competing telecommunications and utility companies improving service levels and reducing prices.

When others saw arms build-ups as heralding World War III, Macrae predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall by the end of the 1980's.

The Norman Macrae Archive serves as an on-line library, hosting a growing collection of Macrae articles, newspaper columns and highlights from his books. We hope that you find the articles thought provoking and zoom, twitter or question us - norman's son chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk



best wishes

1972 ecconomist survey of 1972-2012- WILL AMERICANS AND EUR-CITIZENS EVER BE FREED ENTREPRENEURIALLY FROM PAPER CURRENCIES THE ONLY ZERO-SUM TRADE MONOPLY IN A WORLD WHERE ACTIONABLE KNOWHOW MULTIPLIES VALUE UNLIKECONSUMING UP THING.....

youth hall of fame - japan global friendship associations 1 2 smart intrapreneurs- sony creative lounge


future of HIStory 1945 -to update 2020s version see also Princeton history project connections with osun and von neumanns future of humansai.com

look first at the G8 biggest jigsaw pieces of nearly 200 nations who sought to unite san francisco 1945-until the virus came 2020 was due to be the happy 75th birthday of nations 17sdgs as well as the frontline heroics of medecins sans frontieres and partners in health- coalitions of soft power had never been so urgent to valuetrue. Nature does not play with walls, and other games of externalization at borders -only mistaken male professionals do as they systemically confuse the power of big getting bigger with advancing the human lot for all our children including wherever the next girl is born

In 1945, there were just over 5% of people who lived in usa and Canada- they had twice saved the old world tri-continent of asia Africa and Europe from world wars. Most remarkably usa that in 1939 ranked 17th in terms of international navies on a par with Portugal had become the heart of the wining allied forces. You had the two northern islands at either end of the coastal belts of west Europe and far eat asia who had multiplied so many colonial poverty traps across the Asian 60+% majority of human race , Africa and middle east’s 10%. In trying to compete with uk, France had arguably been most brutal in colonizing med sea Africa, slave trading needed to develop America north wars up from louisana, as well as napoleons war of nations which had sucked in austria hungary , Germany and Russia among others.by start of 20th c Germany without colonies to feed its engineers need for carbon and steel had become bellicose across all its borders. This left less than 2% people in the iced up and largest land mass of all ussr ready to be the victims of stalin as the second most fearsome tyrant the first hal of 20th century grew exponentially. All the while half of humanity – women – were left out of how the word capitalized land and counted productivity even though a deeper look would show that the led with educators like Montessori and health networkers like Florence nightingale, marie curie and indeed the Franciscan role of the clares as community health missionaries- the conscience of mother mary if you will. 9se girlsworldbank.com) There were of course further geographic oddities- only 10% of people lived in the southern hemisphere; less than 1% of peoples lived on what became a quarter of all nations the SIDS- small island developing nations with minimal land resources but huge ocean estates very much dependent on climate, and nature including good human nature of tourism. And you had the archipelagos especially Indonesia and Philippines with large populations- one the epicentre of the world trade in medicinal spices – know how the dutch prized nutmeg so much that they were prepared to swap with the uk control of one indonesian holland with their us territory new Amsterdam rebranded new york

in 60 years


Thursday, December 31, 2020

japan can be youth's most cooperative nation in 2019 as its people are very free to choose how to design their futures without any interference from the big banking economists who have for decades ruined youth;s happiest opportunities

if you get the chance look at nhk in english 0 1 2 3

- its amazing seeing 24 hours a day of content mainly on ordinary people building community things like slow food , ecotourism- japan actually has too few youth and is inviting smart youth exchanges - something it has long done with youth most serious about development challenges -

see eg this nigerian's work  on rebuilding health service which would never have happened without studies in japan

OUR FAMILY TREE
five generations of diaspora scots have lived and worked almost everywhere except Scotland (well we use to have a family hamlet to retire to in Isle of Arran)
here's unfinished mission of missionary Norman Macrae 2

my father Norman Macrae 1 my father was a teenager serving in world war 2 in Royal Air Force-stationed in modernday myanmar and bangladesh- he believed wars wasted nations youth and was at his happiest whenever he helped celebrate countries in win-win trades

My fathers work at The Economist from 1962 onwards in case of Japan earned The Emperor's Order of the Rising Sun . My father also wrote at least one of Prince Charles Speeches for a Japan tour. Over 40 years of my own research as an MA in statistics convinces me royal families can now create positive space for climate and other challenges that politicians and  pessimistic media cannot

According to my father timelines  (started at same time that Gordon More published his exponential rising law) 2020s was always going to be sustainability's make or break decade as more tech brains than human ones started to linkin every place and every innovation for better or worse. 

At least while Trump reigns, rew places can linkin better sustainability/community futures for all under 30s especially women than Japan

EconomistDiary.com I see 5 opportunities unique to Japan in the next 18 months climaxing with the olympics
the other four are:
G20
pope francis and faith visits
emperor and royal family futures
the technology networks of Masa-Son

i welcome any joint research linked to above chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

I try and connect student clubs to maximise friendship exchanges. Friends and I have been doing this one day a week since my father died in 2010. Several Japanese embassies in Asia have hosted events which helped connect technologists, youth and sustainability goals

sincerely
chris macrae 240 316 8157 
norman macrae foundation , Bethesda welcome to EconomistJapan.com 



japan surveys include

GAIIB.com   Girls Asian Infrastructure Investment Banking 

2020 10th anniversary remembrances of Norman Macrae 1
over last 10 years there have been many ups and downs in sponsoring 10 young journalists to find out the real stories of girl empowerment in bangladesh - whenever we needed real help it was the japanese embassy that supported us most and helped us as early as 2012 to understand the future of bkash now agreed by many as the benchmark digital bank for the billion poorest

japan can have a great 18 months greeting both elders and youth who ost want to sustain the world - eg g20 osaka july 2018 pope visit probably november 2019 - summer olympics 2020 with jack ma 's friends like softbank helping celebrate youth in every way

here's where we got to in sept 2016 at UN (courtesy of bloggers at economistuniversity.com )
can japan please move forward with those it agrees with from this session
f the world of education isnt transformed beyond the over-examined classroom - half of all youth will be 
Scotland's most loyal people-centric economist , Gordon Brown, has now assembled 30 national leaders and counting invite families and youth to change the world of education and media - why change if we keep old education half of all youth will be underemployed- lets unite the greatest #learninggeneration - thanks to these leaders
justin van fleet
  Commission - most exciting report on education to be issued UN NY 18 Sept
Coursera - Education

Co-covenors : Norway’s PM Erna Solberg,  Chile’s Michelle Bachelet Indonesia’s Joko Widodo,  Malawi’s Peter Mutharika, UNESCO Irina Bokova  acceptance by Ban Ki-Moon

Commissioners Gordon Brown (chair, scotland);  Jim Kim, Jack Ma (China),  Gracia Machel (S Africa), Amartya Sen,

Ananat Agarwal, Jose Manuel Barroso, Felipe Calderon (Mexico), Kristin Clemet (Norway),  Aliko Dangote (Nigeria), Julia Gilard, Bael Raza Jamil (Pakistan), Amel Karboul (Tunisia), Jakaya Kikwete (tanzania), Yuriko Koike (Japan), Anthony Lake (UNICEF), Ju-Ho Lee (South Korea),  Strive Masiyowa Zimbabwe telecom billionnaire,  Teopisyta Biriungi Mayanja (S Korea), Shakira Mebarak Superstar singer from Colombia, Patricio Meller (Chile),  Ngozi Oko0nzo-Iweala (Nigeria), Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi (United Arab Emirates),  Kailash Satyarthi (india),  Theo Sowa (African Women Development), Lawrence Summers, Helle Thorning Schmidt (SAve The Children International)

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tokyo forum - global commons stewardship

 naoko ishhi 

video clips from sachs sdgn

final thoughts ishhi

The Tokyo Forum 2020 Online, which was co-hosted by the University of Tokyo and the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies in South Korea on December 3rd and 4th, 2020, will be condensed to a one-hour program and broadcasted on TV.

Channel: TV Symposium, NHK

waughray dominic -economic forum

rockstrom institute climate research impact hyperconnected exps -tipping points universal change -  COMPETING NATURE SCALE

extreme events 2020s- planetary emergency- left earth range od climate

tipping points arctic atlantoc amazon coral reefs - see waughray diagram-domino effect


9 variables biosphere

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project optinist - paris 2015 figueres christiana  cimate -disrupted natual evolution  -convention climate

after 2030 doesnt matter what humans do -the decisive decade

funance sector - slow start sparking concern - assets at risk -100 banks around world exclided coal as asn asset from portfolio


corportions beyond financal sector -1000 corporations joined tghe race to netzero by 2050- original invest-divest movement shifted 14 trillion dollars?

-slowly increased corporate understaning plus opportunities of decarbonisation

scalespeed are concern

paul polman - globalism not working at scale

equality

ckimte chage fd securit 

why we have franewok sdgs -165 targets needbusibess- no busiess case in enduring poveety

busine=60% dgp 80% financial flow 90% jobs

japan korea getting together can lead this

also philppines indonesia aus need to recofigure

commitments japan and korea civil sociery spoke up

whole industries must change - gove must lever positively

speed and skill- business go first will have the advantage

far east can lead these coalitions


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vera songwe   commission for africa -carbon sinks   tcad - japn africa-

depends on attacting right investors

on contunent need jbs infrastructure - cant wait to 2050

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ishhi global commons center university of tokyo

ishii uni tokyo global commons

ishii how get there startung to do things differenbtly today

==================== next panel tokyo forum

global commons center

global commons stewardshp index  with yale center

arosols biodiverist ckimate hange land use icean water - 6 cats

japan domesric good- global imports bad

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next saession transforing food


food -ie human eneergy system- system as important as machine energy syste

verghese

kalibata

steer world resources institute

how big chanfe we need?

commoditie 5 million farmer chair worl   -verghese mass metamorphis agri value chain as whole preserve biodiversity/nature hundres million small farmers - non-sustianable - peoplecetral- big action gap 5 million farmer association -tailored framer program trin 18000 farmers on regerative methods - also schools curricula - need granular actions butterfly not just imptved catierpilar

sec gen adviser food conference 2021 agnes kalibata rwanda - back to normal

china agri university cgir  shenggen 


uni tokyo prof hideaki uni of tokyo

korea tae yong  -university

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hideaki u of tokyo - quality of food nutrition needs undstanding - externalitue need to be made transparent - understand biodiversity connetions with food supply chains

-platforms integration

 chey instute  u tokyo tae yong - our systems out of balance- cant take systenm for granted ay more

-make it demabd driven bottom up


spec ambassodor good kalibata 2021 food summit un  rwanda soecial envoy- must change behaviors 


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 how do you see  -shenggen china role - carbon neutrality cant just be by importing others non-green food
-ie work withimport associaion- also inform chinese consumers

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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

2 covid lessons from japan

 japan has one of lowest rates of death per case 

japan has clarified dangerous locations for infection

Nishimura Yasutoshi, the minister overseeing the government’s response to covid-19, carries a device that monitors carbon dioxide to measure the quality of ventilation during his meetings. (The room where he and your correspondent meet registers 506 parts per million, safely below the threshold of 1000 ppm that indicates poor air flow. The interview takes place across a large table, behind plastic shields and with face masks on.)

Researchers deployed Fugaku, the world’s fastest supercomputer, to model different situations. Crowded subways pose little risk, if windows are open and passengers wear masks, Mr Nishimura insists. Sitting diagonally, rather than directly across from each other can reduce the risk of infection by 75%. Movie theatres are safe, “even if viewers are eating popcorn and hot dogs”, Mr Nishimura says. While most cinemas in the West are closed, “Demon Slayer”, a new animeflick, has been playing to full houses in Japan, becoming the country’s second-highest grossing film ever. In addition to the 3Cs, the Japanese government warns of five more specific dangers: dinner parties with booze; drinking and eating in groups of more than four; talking without masks at close quarters; living in dormitories and other small shared spaces; and using changing or break rooms.

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Monday, December 7, 2020

one of great human losses in 2020 - connectoror of japan-us-youth goodwill worldwide

 Yukio Okamoto, a Japanese diplomat and fellow at MIT, died from Covid-19 on April 24 at the age of 74. The former special advisor to two prime ministers of Japan joined the Center for International Studies (CIS) in 2012 as a Robert E. Wilhelm fellow and served as a distinguished research fellow at CIS until his death.  

“Yukio brought to MIT an unparalleled set of experiences on the world stage. A great loss of a great man — and friend of us all,” said Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of CIS. 

Samuels said in an interview with Japan's media outlet NHK that Okamoto never stopped working vigorously for better understanding between the United States and Japan, and that he has never known anyone to be more committed to maintaining healthy bilateral relations than Okamoto was.

From 1968 to 1991, Okamoto was a career diplomat in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His overseas postings included stints in Paris at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and in the embassies in Cairo, Egypt, and Washington. He retired from the ministry in 1991 and established Okamoto Associates, a political and economic consultancy.

Post-retirement, Okamoto had served in a number of advisory positions. From 1996 to 1998, he was special advisor to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. From October 2001 to March 2003, he was special advisor to the cabinet. From March 2003 to March 2004, he was special advisor on Iraq to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Concurrent with the above last two posts, he was chair of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Foreign Relations. Until September 2008, he was a member of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's Study Group on Diplomacy.

Okamoto was an adjunct professor of international relations at Ritsumeikan University as well as Tohoku University. He sat on the boards of directors of several multinational companies. He also served as the president of Shingen'eki Net, a nonprofit group for active seniors with 16,000 members. In addition, Okamoto wrote books on Japanese diplomacy and government and was a regular contributor to major newspapers and magazines. He was a well-known public speaker and a frequent guest on public affairs and news broadcasts.

While at MIT, Okamoto was an informal mentor to graduate students and a highly valued colleague to faculty and research staff. He worked with a study group from MIT and Harvard University to produce most of the text for a forthcoming memoir. The Center for International Studies will continue to work with his family and colleagues to bring this to fruition.

Okamoto also, during his MIT tenure, gave dozens of public presentations around the United States on topics related to U.S.-Japan relations and to Asian international relations. He did all this while working vigorously behind the scenes to repair Japan’s relationship with China and to help those in need in northeastern Japan after the triple catastrophes of March 2011 — the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. He also founded the Signal of Hope Fund, an initiative he established to assist the Tohoku fisheries industry recover from these disasters.

see also report 5 equal alliance global agenda-  published today


joseph nye - chris macrae always asks the hard questions

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