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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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Has Japan Lost Its Political Stability?

2024.10.29

Why Did They Lose? The LDP (the Liberal Democratic Party) and Komeito coalition have lost their majo...

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  • 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...

  • Three Important Agendas about Japan’s General Election

    The House of Representatives was dissolved yesterday towards a General Election at the end of the Month. This comes only weeks aft...

  • Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2021 JAPAN

    【Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2021 Japan】 Oct.13, Wed. 2021　4:00pm-4：30pm JST Lully Miura will participate in the discussion wi...

  • Change, not continuity, will define Japan’s new leader

    The race for the leader of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been a fierce power struggle that has not been seen for some time af...

  • Japan’s ruling party is picking a new leader and likely next prime minister. Here are the candidates.

    The race to become Japan's next prime minister has set up an unpredictable leadership election — with candidates facing challenges...