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The challenge of eliminating supply-demand disparities in childcare
For working parents, child day care centers are important social infrastructure. This is also true i...
June 4, 2022
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Is the United Nations a friend of justice or a useless bystander?
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has once again called into question the raison d’etre of the Unite...
May 28, 2022
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2025 Expo of future dreams faces real-world financial challenges
Many people in their 60s and older appear to have fond memories of Expo 1970 Osaka. When that exposi...
May 21, 2022
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23-year-old LDP, Komeito partnership has come to crossroad
The relationship between the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling coalition partner Komeito has b...
May 14, 2022
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Kishida’s ‘realism’ foreign policy vision put to test by Russian invasion
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s foreign policy vision of “realism diplomacy for a new era” is being p...
May 7, 2022
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Zelenskyy’s speech highlights Japan’s challenges in a changed world
On Dec. 2, 1958, in Tokyo, Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia delivered the first speech by a for...
April 25, 2022
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Statecraft is shackled by constant election campaigning
Yomiuri Shimbun file photoPrime Minister Fumio Kishida, second from right, poses as he places a rose...
April 9, 2022
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Strength, balance needed to face China
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden’s summit in Washington on April 16 was th...
May 16, 2021
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