When the Japanese government announced a subsidy program to encourage Japanese firms to shift production operations out of China, it might have...
Rural Japan has long been trying to attract big-city dwellers to relocate to the countryside. A current wrinkle on these efforts is...
Welcome to installment XVIII (June 2020) of Sino-Japanese Review, a monthly column on major developments in relations between China and Japan that provides...
In early 2019, a full year before the global coronavirus pandemic caught the world off guard, regional banks in Japan were said...
While other nations are praised for controlling the virus, Japan's low COVID-19 death toll is often treated as a mystery at best,...
Claims that Japan's Constitution forbids a strict lockdown are simply untrue - and such falsehoods provide support for the LDP's revision agenda.
Comparing the responses to COVID-19 and the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns shows that Japan's government learned few lessons from the disaster nine years...
Welcome to installment XVI (April 2020) of Sino-Japanese Review, a monthly column on major developments in relations between China and Japan that...
COVID-19 is the first time Japan's SDF has deployed for a health crisis - which may be an important step towards Japan...
Japan's reliance on food imports and global trade means that the rising death toll from COVID19 is only the start of the...
Welcome to installment XIV (March 2020) of Sino-Japanese Review, a monthly column on major developments in relations between China and Japan that...
A timely book argues that Japan's huge public debt makes it vulnerable to financial collapse - and explores possible responses to that...