Insights Into The World
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Major Powers Awaken to Inland Asia’s Importance
While tensions continue to deepen between the United States and China, one region in the world has b...
September 22, 2023
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COVID Risk Evaluation Now Up to Individuals
About four months have passed since COVID-19 was downgraded from the equivalent of a Category II dis...
September 8, 2023
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Uptick in Productive Jobs Needed to Spur Growth
Seeking to revitalize the Japanese economy, the government has recognized that it is urgent to creat...
August 25, 2023
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Long-term Care Insurance Increasingly Insecure
Japan’s long-term care insurance system, introduced in April 2000, is an extremely important social ...
August 11, 2023
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Universities Need to Strengthen Educational Role
Japan has made little progress in reforming its universities, despite much discourse on this being a...
August 4, 2023
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Japan Has Vital Part to Play in Divided World
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida participated in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s summit on July...
July 28, 2023
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Mega Industrial Policies Emerge as Market Fails
Major countries across the world are implementing large-scale industrial policies to strengthen the ...
July 21, 2023
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Police Must Do Utmost to Fill Gaps in VIP Safety
We will soon mark one year since the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during an el...
July 7, 2023
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Polarization Threatens U.S. Foreign Policy
In the recent past, the U.S. and China have been scrambling for influence in the southern Pacific. C...
June 30, 2023
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ODA Key in Boosting Ties with Emerging Nations
Newspapers often use “emerging and developing countries” as an alternative term for the Global South...
June 23, 2023
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Local Government Can Lead to Robust Diplomacy
The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have brought to the fore a myriad of difficul...
June 2, 2023
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‘Global South’ Needs More Elaborate Definition
We often come across the term “Global South” these days. It was originally coined as an antonym of a...
May 12, 2023
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Japanese-Indian Unity Vital to Retool Global Order
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Ukraine on March 21. Apparently overshadowed b...
April 28, 2023
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Overcome ‘Valley of Death’ for Medicine’s Sake
Fifteen years have passed since the announcement of the production of human induced pluripotent stem...
April 7, 2023
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Trap of Pyrrhic Victory in Regional Conflicts
War is easy to start but difficult to bring to an end. When Russian President Vladimir Putin launche...
March 31, 2023
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