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101SecurityThe Energy Blind Spot in Japan’s National Security Strategy
Following her decisive Lower House victory, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae signaled plans to devote greater resources to strengthening Japan’s defense posture. Given...
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72SocietyThe invisible 18-year-olds: Special-needs graduates in Japan
A December 2025 report by the Mainichi Shimbun revealed that Japan’s Ministry of Education had not included graduates of special-needs schools in...
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192Election 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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216Election 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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209SocietyJapan 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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633Election 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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766SocietyRhetoric 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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563EconomyA 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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950EconomyThe price of a PhD in Japan: Prestige without security
As Japan faces demographic decline and a shrinking research workforce, securing the next generation of researchers has become a matter of national...
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775PoliticsRemembering 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,”...