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 ...
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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...
- 2024.10.29
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...
- 2023.04.07
It has now been one year and three months since Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took office. Across public opinion polls, including t...
- 2022.12.29
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...
- 2022.07.18
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...
- 2022.03.12
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...
- 2022.02.19
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...
- 2021.10.15
If One Favors Wartime Analogy, One needs an Exit Strategy
The “wartime” analogy Few would disagree that we are living in a time of crisis. But few are aware that this crisis is not caused ...
- 2020.05.07
The Shifting Tectonics of Japan One Year After 3.11.2011
The Shifting Tectonics of Japan One Year After 3.11.2011 Lully Miura and Joshua W. Walker Summary: Japan’s magnitude 9.0 earthquak...
- 2020.02.20
Forget sanctions, reining in North Korea will need a whole new approach
Forget sanctions, reining in North Korea will need a whole new approach North Korea’s increased nuclear sabre-rattling has the wor...
- 2017.04.05
Is Japan Drifting to the Right?
Is Japan Drifting to the Right? It is widely believed in the Western and Asian press that Japanese politics is drifting to the rig...
- 2015.04.02
