Editorial & Columns
Political Pulse
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Authoritarian regimes need a neighborly nudge toward democracy
Authoritarianism now runs rampant in some parts of Southeast Asia. I was a correspondent in this reg...
August 13, 2022
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Women candidates advance beyond ‘token’ status in Japanese politics
Women who are in the minority of a group are often treated as tokens. Harvard University Prof. Rosab...
August 6, 2022
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Would legalized gambling pollute the clean image of Japanese sports?
A draft proposal by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry (METI) to lift the ban on sports bettin...
July 30, 2022
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Is there a path to Kishida’s vision of a world free of nuclear weapons?
On Aug. 1, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will become the first Japanese prime minister to address the...
July 23, 2022
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Japan overlooks technological treasures right under its feet
There is growing concern about Japan’s science and technology. Although Japan has been putting a lot...
July 16, 2022
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Price stability a long-unsolved conundrum for Japan
“Irrational exuberance” is a phrase widely used to warn about the risks of a bubble-like stock marke...
July 2, 2022
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Japanese voters have lost their appetite for ‘reform’ policies
As election day for the House of Councillors draws near, party leaders have been rushing around batt...
June 25, 2022
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Education politics should consider reasons to learn English
Takao Yamamoto is a master of active learning in English. Changing students’ pair work partners like...
June 18, 2022
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Concerned public, not gaiatsu, now drives strong security policies
Japan has been both cautious and passive about evolving its security policy for a long time. Japan h...
June 11, 2022
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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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