All posts tagged "coronavirus pandemic"

• Politics

  The 2020 Tokyo Olympics is a Manmade Disaster

  Just days before the start of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, social media was abuzz over stories in the western...

• Sino-Japanese Review

  Japan’s Growing Reliance on the Chinese Market

  Welcome to instalment XXV (January 2021) of Sino-Japanese Review, a monthly column on major developments in relations between China and Japan that...

• Politics

  Lost in Communication: Japan’s Covid-19 Information Crisis

  Every year in December, Japan’s Kanji Proficiency Society announces a single kanji character as the “Kanji of the Year”. The winner in...

• Society

  Building Back Better for Japan’s Women in a Post-COVID Society

  The coronavirus pandemic has brought large interruptions to typical patterns of working, forcing Japanese companies to become more flexible and loosen their...

• Politics

  How Culture Explains COVID

  Less than two months after issuing a state of emergency, former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo declared victory over COVID-19. Abe was keen...