Series | [Daisuke Yosumi ✕Daisuke Yosumi × Madoka Maeno & Takashi Maeno] A conversation with leading happiness researchers: Is it really true that “Japan ranks low in happiness”?

15 January, 2026

連載|クーリエ・ジャポン【四角大輔 ✕ 前野マドカ&前野隆司】幸福学の第一人者に訊く 「日本の幸福度は低い」というデータは本当なのか

A new articles of Daisuke Yosumi’s series “Strategies for Happiness from Your 30s” were published on the online magazine Courrier Japon. This time, Daisuke joins leading happiness scholars Madoka Maeno and Takashi Maeno to explore a simple but deep question: What is “happiness,” really? We invite you to read and reflect. Please have a read!

Part 1(Free for a limited time) – A conversation with pioneers of happiness studies: Is it true that “Japan ranks low in happiness”?

Part 2 (Free to read through the middle section) – Taught at the world’s first Faculty of Well-Being: The one assignment that changed students’ lives