On March 25st we were delighted to have joined the East-West Center’s online webinar event featuring a number of rising experts on...
In our increasingly networked world, the international activities of states, cities, and other subnational actors are expanding rapidly. Their rising importance has...
On August 4th, the Toonippo, Aomori’s prefectural newspaper, carried an article about the opening of the ice hockey season, delayed one month...
Rural Japan has long been trying to attract big-city dwellers to relocate to the countryside. A current wrinkle on these efforts is...
In early 2019, a full year before the global coronavirus pandemic caught the world off guard, regional banks in Japan were said...
Rural depopulation has left eight million houses empty in Japan - but by putting homes before jobs, the Akiya Bank program is...
"Japan's Population Implosion: The 50 Million Shock" sets out a stark and clearly-argued warning to the country, placing its steady depopulation and...