Political Series
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Unreported Funds — The dark side of factions / 100-Strong Prosecutor Team Pours Cold Water on Optimistic Mood of Japan’s Political Hub
This is the third and last installment of a series about the dark side of Japan’s political factions...
December 22, 2023
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Unreported Funds — The dark side of factions / Fundraising Party Tickets Sold in Small Lots, Evading Public Disclosure
A male secretary for a mid-level lawmaker who belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe faction ...
December 21, 2023
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Unreported Funds — The dark side of factions / Excess Funds Said Returned to Members Since Mid-1990s
About a dozen prosecutors from the special investigative squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecut...
December 20, 2023
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Future World Order: Industrial Policies / As China Hunts For High-Tech Secrets, Lack of Security Clearance
This is the fifth and final installment of a series that reports on security-focused, public-private...
November 6, 2023
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Future World Order: Industrial Policies / Investment Key for Development of Innovative Japan N-Tech
This is the fourth installment of a series that reports on security-focused, public-private industri...
November 5, 2023
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Future World Order: Industrial policies / Public, Private Sectors in Japan to Work Together in Space Security; Space Security Initiative Provides Guidance for Collaboration
This is the third installment of a series that reports on security-focused, public-private industria...
November 2, 2023
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Future World Order: Industrial Policies / Japan’s Efforts to Nurture Personnel Related to Semiconductors Focus on ‘Colleges of Technology’
This is the second installment of a series that reports on security-focused, public-private industri...
November 2, 2023
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Future World Order: Industrial policies / Public-private Cooperation, Intl Tie-Ups Key to Japan Making a Semiconductor Comeback
Groundbreaking for a chip factory in Hokkaido shows that international ties and public-private coope...
October 30, 2023
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International Organizations / Resource Embargoes Go Unchecked amid WTO Dysfunction
This is the fifth and final installment of a series examining how international organizations are at...
July 22, 2023
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International Organizations / NGOs Gather Evidence to Put Onus on Russia for War Crimes
This is the fourth installment of a series examining how international organizations are at a critic...
July 20, 2023
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International Organizations / Prevalence of Disinformation Has Japan Fighting Back
Reuters file photoRafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency,...
July 19, 2023
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International Organizations / China Ambitious to Set Global Telecommunications Standards
This is the second installment in a series of a series in which The Yomiuri Shimbun examines how int...
July 19, 2023
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International Organizations / Russian Invasion Leads to Yearlong Vacuum on U.N. Council
Since the end of World War II, international organizations have contributed greatly to world order, ...
July 18, 2023
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Future world order: Economic tug-of-war / Nations move away from “coexistence and co-prosperity” regarding semiconductors
The post-Cold War global structure has collapsed amid the confrontation between the United States an...
January 13, 2023
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Future world order: Economic tug-of-war / Japan losing ground in competition to buy chicken
In the city of Cascavel, Parana State, in southern Brazil, more than 26,000 chickens were crowded to...
January 11, 2023
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