International

How could we continue to place information of Muslims in the “unwanted box?”

Since the September 11 attacks and the Islamic State’s killings of Japanese hostages, Japanese people have an image that Islam is a terrifyi ...

If this goes on, Japan will be a major exporter of arms!!

The global arms trade has steadily grown and now reached the largest scale in the post-Cold War period. Japan is also turning into an arms e ...

Thoughts on the image that “Islam is dangerous!”

Recently the image of Islam as a ringleader causing international terrorism has become stronger. Why are they so violent? Many people seem t ...

Confronting the truth of gated communities and studying their “possibilities”

Increasing in the US in recent years, gated communities are regarded critically in Japan as communities where the wealthy gather and reside, ...

White supremacy that goes against what makes America

In the U.S., white supremacist groups have been on the rise since the inauguration of the Trump administration, and there have even been cla ...

Is it North Korea with its nuclear arms or the Trump Administration that will get reckless?

Many people are concerned that the “New World Order,” created by major countries in the world in the 20 years since the end of the Cold War, ...

Was populism dismissed in the wake of the 2017 French presidential election?

On May 7, 2017, voting in the second round of the French presidential election took place, and pro-European Union Emmanuel Macron was electe ...

America’s sense of crisis pushed Trump to presidency

While the preliminary polls for the United States presidential election in 2016 favored Hillary Clinton, it was Donald Trump who won the ele ...

Can we expect reforms from the Trump administration that scapegoat immigrants?

In Japan, the Trump administration, which advocates antiforeignism and conservatism, tends to be seen as a regressive administration that pu ...