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• Politics

  The Case for Holding the Tokyo Olympics

  Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games organizers announced that preparations for the global tournament are “continuing as planned”, stressing that they “never discussed”...

• Politics

  Olympics Chief Mori’s Gaffe Exposes Suga’s Weakness

  Exactly twenty years ago today, on February 9th 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville collided with a Japanese high-school training boat, the...

• 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...

• Sino-Japanese Review

  Japanese Attitudes toward China Harden Further

  Welcome to installment XXIV (December 2020) of Sino-Japanese Review, a monthly column on major developments in relations between China and Japan that...

• Sino-Japanese Review

  Japan on Edge over “Unprecedented” Chinese Incursions

  Welcome to installment XXIII (November 2020) of Sino-Japanese Review, a monthly column on major developments in relations between China and Japan that...

• 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...

• Economy

  The Japan-UK Trade Agreement and the Shadow of Brexit

  The highly anticipated Japan-UK comprehensive economic partnership agreement (EPA) was formally signed on October 23, the first post-Brexit agreement London signed as...

• Politics

  Are Women Japan’s Hidden Conservatives?

  Former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s efforts to add more women to Japan’s shrinking workforce and into managerial positions has attracted strong criticism...

• Politics

  Can a Universal Basic Services Plan Save Japan’s Opposition?

  Japan’s largest opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) has unveiled plans to draft a new welfare policy which focuses...

• Politics

  Leading from the Kantei: Japan and the Quad

  On Tuesday, October 6, Japan will be hosting the second Australia-India-Japan-U.S. “quad” foreign ministers’ meeting  in Tokyo against the backdrop of rapidly...