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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mega Industrial Policies Emerge as Market Fails

    Major countries across the world are implementing large-scale industrial policies to strengthen the ...

    July 21, 2023

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ‘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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Very Bumpy Road Ahead for Next BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda

    Haruhiko Kuroda will step down as the longest-serving governor of the Bank of Japan on April 8 after...

    March 24, 2023

  • 5 Steps for Japan, U.S. to Credibly Deter China

    Japan and the United States have made remarkable progress on defense cooperation in the last few yea...

    March 10, 2023

  • Warfare Today at the Mercy of Intelligence Capabilities

    A year has passed since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainians have put up stronger-th...

    March 3, 2023

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