Tokyo Review
All posts tagged "featured"
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8.0KPoliticsUntangling Yasukuni
The complex history of Yasukuni Shrine makes it an intractable problem for Japan's foreign relations; the uneasy compromise of senior politicians avoiding...
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7.7KPoliticsCandidate Recruitment Secures the LDP’s Future
Twenty F̶o̶u̶r̶ [First Century Liberal Democratic] Party People
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10.7KEconomyJapan by the Numbers: Too Many Holidays?
Today, Japan celebrates the country’s lofty peaks with a day of rest. Yup, August 11 is Mountain Day in Japan, the country’s...
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6.0KPoliticsImagining an Effective Opposition
Japan lacks effective and coherent political opposition - but is it even possible to imagine what that might look like?
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18.0KSocietyThe Dark Side of Japan’s “Okinawa Boom”
There is probably some hypocrisy in discussing the appropriation of Okinawan culture from an Okinawan restaurant that has recently opened in a...
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3.7KPoliticsTreading Carefully on Casino Resorts
The LDP begins laying the ground for a bill on a deeply unpopular issue – the opening of casino resorts, which stir...
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6.5KEconomyThe “Person Inside:” Corporate Twitter in Japan
When embattled electronics maker Sharp Corporation opened university recruiting for 2018 earlier this year, its official Twitter account called the company’s recruiting...
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9.0KPoliticsJapan’s New Politics and the Rule of Law
Recent years have witnessed Japan’s most dramatic program of legal and political reforms since the end of the Second World War, reforms...
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4.5KPoliticsOpposition Chaos gives Abe Room to Breathe
Support for the government may be falling, but the shock resignation of the Democratic Party's top leadership shows that the crisis in...
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9.7KSecurityJapan’s Maritime Strategy and the Dynamics of Denial
To paraphrase a political science aphorism, where a nation sits geographically is where it stands strategically. As an archipelago stretching over thousands...
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4.0KPoliticsBureaucrat Whistleblowers Spell Trouble for the LDP
Japan’s powerful bureaucracy has existed symbiotically with the LDP for generations; but recent scandals suggest some ministry officials are done covering for...
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Society
Where do Japan’s politicians eat?
Want to rub shoulders with Japanese politicians but don’t have a pass to the LDP cafeteria? (Too bad, you’re missing out on...
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