Browsing Category
Japan
Race and Population: Japan’s Economic Timebombs
National policy and planning have taken centre stage, but are currently preoccupied with avoiding migration. This…
Fukushima: Une réintégration accélérée par les JO
Récemment, le premier ministre Shinzō Abe s’est montré sans tenue de protection à quelques dizaines de mètres de la…
7 winners and losers from a deeply ambiguous Japanese…
On May 1st, a new Emperor of Japan ascended to the throne, marking an end to the thirty-year-long Heisei era and…
The Chongryon: North Korea’s Ethnic Enclave in…
Japan does not maintain formal diplomatic relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , and when they…
Japan’s Uncomfortable Past
On October 4th, the city of Osaka in Japan cut ties with its sister-city, San Francisco due to the controversy…
Japan’s Opposition Must Learn To Talk About The…
It was supposed to be the moment of reckoning. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's six years in office have…
Meet Japan’s NDP
The conclusive victory of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in last October’s general election was supposed to…
Twilight of Japan’s Factionalism: Decline of…
Is the era of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) factionalism over? In February 2018, Fukushiro Nukaga, head of the…
Japan’s Remarkable Modernization
Today, Japan is by all metrics a first world country: It is an advanced democracy with the world’s fourth largest…