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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 more rigid working styles. Yet, with the decimation...
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 provides a running commentary on the evolution of...
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 provides a running commentary on the evolution of...
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 to suggest that a “characteristically Japanese way” was...
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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 an independent nation and amid stalling EU-UK trade...
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 as many women juggling childrearing take on temporary...
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 on what it calls “basic services.” The ambitious draft...
Sino-Japanese Review
Washington’s Role in the Delicate China-Japan Balance

Welcome to installment XXII (October 2020) of Sino-Japanese Review, a monthly column on major developments in relations between China and Japan that provides a running commentary on the evolution of...

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Migrant labor in an aging agricultural sector

Just last year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) published a report...
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Foreigner fatigue and Japan’s new populism

Japan’s new government under Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),...

Politics

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The center’s self-defeating politics

As Japan’s far-right gains political and ideological force, can the center hold? It is...
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The future of the LDP-Ishin partnership

Japanese politics has hit a major inflection point. Takaichi Sanae has become the first...

Economy

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India, Japan, and the Strategic Role of Infrastructure

Infrastructure inevitably has an economic impact, but the impact can also be geopolitical, as...
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Can Japan Take the Lead in Governing Digital Trade?

The increasing relevance of the digital world to the future of governance is not...

Security

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Taipei is watching Takaichi’s standoff with Beijing

Taiwan is back at the center of Sino-Japanese relations after Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae...
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Japan’s accelerated defense timeline

Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s decision to move Japan’s defense-spending target of two percent of...

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“Bring Him Down to a Portable Size” review

The question of ego might be best answered in the portrayal of one’s (imaginary)...
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“Black Box Diaries” review

Itō Shiori, the Japanese #MeToo trailblazer who regrettably never was. A conspiracy-thriller-adjacent documentary of...

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