Newsletters
The SPF Newsletter is a quarterly (with the exception of FY1998) publication which features project reports and other articles highlighting the efforts of SPF.
Copies of the Newsletter are available free from SPF. If you would like to receive a copy or would like to be on our mailing list, please E-mail spfpr@spf.or.jp.
Listed below are the newsletters available on-line:
FY2006
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 4, FY2006 (published March, 2007) (PDF 1.5MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Rethinking human security
Achieving objectives demands cross-sectoral activities
- Special Report:
- The balance between IP protection and the public interest
- Project Report:
- Searching for the best balance between IP rights and the public interest
Providing public access to information on life sciences
- Opinion :
- Guidelines for improving access to research-tool patents
- Reports from the Field:
- Japan and the South Caucasus
- SPF Publications
From the Editor's Desk
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 3, FY2006 (published January, 2007) (PDF 1.1MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Risks facing the imminent “Asian age”
The need for true China-Japan-U.S. leadership
- Foundation Updates:
- Pacific islands international exchange on Amami Oshima
- Reports from the Field:
- Tenth-anniversary Forum 2000 conference
- Special Report:
- Thinking about Russo -Japanese relations in Asia
- Project Report:
- Report on the project Toward a New Partnership between Russia and Japan in Asia
- Opinion:
- The need for intellectual cross-fertilization
- Reports from the Field:
- Sentosa Roundtable Study Group on Regional Economic Growth and Inter-dependence
- Obituary
SPF Publications
From the Editor's Desk
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 2, FY2006 (published October, 2006) (PDF 1.3MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Transmitting a made-in-Japan philosophy of peace to the world
A message of symbiosis from Shinto shrine groves
- President's Message:
- Thoughts on SPF's twentieth anniversary
- Special Report:
- SPF activities complementing public assistance
- Project Report:
- SPF activities complementing public assistance
- Field Report:
- Capacity building in economic research and monitoring for the Lao PDR
- Foundation Updates:
- The Bangkok conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Announcement of results of Japan-China opinion poll
- Opinion :
- The long road to rebuilding the Middle East peace process
- Reports from the Field:
- Sentosa Roundtable Study Group on Regional Economic Growth and Inter-dependence
- SPF Publications
From the Editor's Desk
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 1, FY2006 (published July, 2006) (PDF 1.5MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- How should Japan position itself in a time of great change?
Lack of strategy is Japan's strategy
- Opinion :
- Japan's economic aid to Pakistan
- Project Report:
- Business Case Development Project in Uzbekistan
- Foundation Updates:
- Japan in Northeast Asia
Courses on modern Japan in Czech and Slovak universities
Washington seminar featuring AsiaViews partners
- SPF Publications
From the Editor's Desk
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