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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

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    December 20, 2023

  • 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

  • Future World Order: Industrial Policies / Investment Key for Development of Innovative Japan N-Tech

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    November 5, 2023

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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    This is the fifth and final installment of a series examining how international organizations are at...

    July 22, 2023

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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