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Germany shifts from “good role model” to “negative role model”
July 26, 2024
It was reported that Germany overtook Japan for the first time since 1969 in nominal GDP (gross domestic product) in 2023 in U.S. dollar ter ...
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Where the 2024 U.S. presidential election and overheated media competition are headed
July 8, 2024
The U.S. presidential campaign, held every four years, is now underway. The U.S. presidential election can broadly be divided into two phase ...
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Issue of politics, religion, and discrimination behind the abortion debate in the U.S.
May 30, 2024
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (the Dobbs decision), invalidated Roe v. Wade decision ...
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What is the strategy of a Cold War deterring challenges to the global order?
November 27, 2023
In the middle of the prolonged war in Ukraine, President Zelensky visited Hiroshima in May 2023 and met with world leaders. In the meantime, ...
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The Olympics and its transformation of cities – from the planning in London, Tokyo, and Paris
October 31, 2023
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were full of excitement from the medal rush by Japanese athletes. However, we do not reflect so ...
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What Japan’s immigration policy left out
October 13, 2023
The Japanese government is taking steps to accept human resources from abroad and relax their residency status. A continued increase in the ...
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Japanese cuisine (washoku) could be the key to solving the food problem!?
September 26, 2023
Zero hunger is one of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). In other words, people around the world are working together to eliminate hu ...
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What we can see from French parliamentary history
August 23, 2023
The way of democracy seems considerably different between France and Japan. For example in France demonstrations are staged almost every day ...
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Can Japan learn from the policy of the happiest country in the world?
August 2, 2023
Finland, which had not received much attention from Japan, has been receiving more attention recently. One of the underlying reasons for tha ...