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105Election 2026Is this the end of a unified opposition?
The biggest surprise in an already difficult-to-predict election has been the merger of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) and the...
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137Election 2026When reform becomes preservation: The paradox of the Centrist Reform Alliance
The Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA)–a merger of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and former ruling coalition partner Komeito–marks less an...
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135SocietyJapan faces child safety crisis amid rising school bullying and child abuse
Japan is confronting mounting concerns over child safety, as data from education and police authorities point to record levels of school refusal,...
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553Election 2026Takaichi faces major stress test in 2026
The new year has kicked off with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi calling a general election to “ask the sovereign people to decide”...
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676SocietyRhetoric over reality: The myth of rising foreign crime
Recent public debate in Japan has grown markedly more heated around foreign crime, driven in part by political rhetoric, rising arrests of non-Japanese individuals, and proposals...
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523EconomyA 1995 Vision for U.S.–Japan Relations, Revisited
Tokyo Review invited me to take a critical look at an essay I published in Foreign Policy thirty years ago, when I...
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751PoliticsRemembering Martha Layne Collins: A Force for U.S.–Japan Subnational Diplomacy
“Without a doubt.” When I asked my father whether Toyota had changed our hometown, he was unequivocal. A day-one employee at what...
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1.4KPoliticsHow online outrage undermines local inclusion efforts in Japan
A specter is haunting local governance in Japan—the specter of the attention economy. Municipal officials, whose daily work usually revolves around routine...
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1.1KSocietyMigrant labor in an aging agricultural sector
Just last year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) published a report that indicated a decrease in “core agricultural workers,”...
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2.2KSocietyForeigner fatigue and Japan’s new populism
Japan’s new government under Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and its partnership with the populist Japan Innovation...
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901Media“Bring Him Down to a Portable Size” review
The question of ego might be best answered in the portrayal of one’s (imaginary) nemesis. During their stage greeting at the 38th...
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1.9KSecurityTaipei is watching Takaichi’s standoff with Beijing
Taiwan is back at the center of Sino-Japanese relations after Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae told the Diet last week that a Chinese...