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Following her decisive Lower House victory, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae signaled plans to devote greater resources to strengthening Japan’s defense posture. Given the Liberal Democratic Party’s newfound supermajority, Takaichi will...
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A December 2025 report by the Mainichi Shimbun revealed that Japan’s Ministry of Education had not included graduates of special-needs schools in its official count of the “18-year-old population,” a...
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The biggest surprise in an already difficult-to-predict election has been the merger of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) and the ruling party’s former coalition partner Komeito into the...
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The Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA)–a merger of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and former ruling coalition partner Komeito–marks less an innovation than the endpoint of a journey that...
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The new year has kicked off with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi calling a general election to “ask the sovereign people to decide” whether to support her and the new Liberal...
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Rhetoric over reality: The myth of rising foreign crime

Recent public debate in Japan has grown markedly more heated around foreign crime, driven in part by political rhetoric, rising arrests of non-Japanese individuals, and proposals by governing party factions to tighten controls on...
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A 1995 Vision for U.S.–Japan Relations, Revisited

Tokyo Review invited me to take a critical look at an essay I published in Foreign Policy thirty years ago, when I was a junior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy...

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The Liberal Democratic Party’s absolute majority in the House of Representatives under the leadership...
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Is this the end of a unified opposition?

The biggest surprise in an already difficult-to-predict election has been the merger of the...
657

When reform becomes preservation: The paradox of the Centrist Reform Alliance

The Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA)–a merger of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP)...
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Takaichi faces major stress test in 2026

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The invisible 18-year-olds: Special-needs graduates in Japan

A December 2025 report by the Mainichi Shimbun revealed that Japan’s Ministry of Education...
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Japan faces child safety crisis amid rising school bullying and child abuse

Japan is confronting mounting concerns over child safety, as data from education and police...

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Japan’s far-right turn is real, but not in the way you think
The Energy Blind Spot in Japan’s National Security Strategy
The invisible 18-year-olds: Special-needs graduates in Japan
Is this the end of a unified opposition?
When reform becomes preservation: The paradox of the Centrist Reform Alliance
Japan faces child safety crisis amid rising school bullying and child abuse
Takaichi faces major stress test in 2026
Rhetoric over reality: The myth of rising foreign crime

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