The new year has kicked off with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi calling a general election to “ask the sovereign people to decide”...
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...
Tokyo Review invited me to take a critical look at an essay I published in Foreign Policy thirty years ago, when I...
“Without a doubt.” When I asked my father whether Toyota had changed our hometown, he was unequivocal. A day-one employee at what...
A specter is haunting local governance in Japan—the specter of the attention economy. Municipal officials, whose daily work usually revolves around routine...
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