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” What should one aspire once achieving freedom?
I believe there should be “Compassion.” Liberalism should go beyond personal freedom, and ensure others are also offered opportunities to go forward, to ensure progress. Such compassionate politics is seriously needed in today’s world…”

LULLY MIURA

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Japan's Quiet Realignment: What LDP Voter Outflows Tell Us About 2025

2025.09.29

Findings from the Japan Values Today (JVT) Survey, 2025 Summary Japan’s electorate is not polarizing...

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  • Japan's Generational Turn:From "Self-Reliance" to a Blend of Isolationism and "Unique Japan"

    The Old Project: Exiting the Postwar For decades, Japan’s conservative politicians and public intellectuals have rehearsed a famil...

  • Japan’s 2025 Upper House Election: A Pivotal Moment of Reckoning

    The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) faced a terrible defeat in the July 2025 Upper House elections (see, chart 1 for the res...

  • Lost in Translation? Tamaki, the DPFP, and Why Women Still Aren’t Buying It

    Yuichiro Tamaki’s recent gaffe in English has gotten plenty of buzz----but let’s pause for a second. Is the reason the Democratic ...

  • Has Japan Lost Its Political Stability?

    Why Did They Lose? The LDP (the Liberal Democratic Party) and Komeito coalition have lost their majority in the Diet House of Repr...

  • How Japan's Defense Budget Increase Became Possible

    The Diet enacted the biggest ever budget in the history of Japan for the new FY2023, on 28 March. A record budget, 114.38 trillion...

  • Kishida Administration

    It has now been one year and three months since Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took office. Across public opinion polls, including t...

  • Links to Fringe Church Hit Japan Leader’s Popularity

    Lully Miura commented for Bloomberg about the declining approval rating of the Kishida administration. The article was posted on A...

  • Japan’s Ex-PM Abe in Critical Condition After Shooting

    Lully Miura commented for Voice of America about the campaign events in Japan. The article was posted on July 8, 2022.

  • The Assassination of Shinzo Abe

    It has now been ten days since the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. My last encounter with Shinzo was at a sympo...

  • The Collapse of Empires and the Ukraine War

    The hypothesis that shifts in imperial hegemony tend to trigger large-scale wars has persisted over time. However, historical anal...

  • 【CATs-QUICK】 The dynamic forecast of Covid-19 infection in Tokyo, JAPAN (updated on Mar.4)

    Mar.4  update of the dynamic forecast for the number of newly Covid-19 infected in Tokyo by CATs-QUICK.  The current phase is stil...

  • Why Has the Number of Newly Infected Fallen?

    Since January 25, 2022, CATs-QUICK has been providing a dynamic forecast for the 7 day moving average for the number of newly infe...