Japan Research Institute

the japan research institute (jri) was established as a non-profit organization on aug. 31, 1970. jri was established in order to pursue and solve the complex problems that inevitably confront the public and private sectors in the present highly sophisticated era as well as to formulate new ideas and theories. jri's establishement was motivated by individual initiative, and therefore jri's first working principle is complete newtrality and creativiety without the influence of established enterprises, capital groups, and organizations such as political parties and labor unions. with the accumulation of successful performance records, jri has been widely recognized as one of japan's representative think tanks. jri's second working principle is to expand scope of its human resources for innovative and flexible organizational structure while avoiding complexity. toward this end, the full-time staff at jri are carefully selected and trained for comprehensive, wide-range of organizational ta