Uncategorized The Consequences of Japan’s Shrinking Population January 5, 2018 7 Written by Shiro Armstrong. The population of Japan peaked in 2008 at 128 million. With the fertility rate – births per woman – falling below 1.5…
Uncategorized Making Japan great again: Shinzo Abe’s landslide election win December 2, 2017 0 Written by Fatima-Zohra Er-Rafia. On 22 October, Japan re-elected Shinzo Abe, handing the Jiminto (Liberal Democratic Party) and its junior coalition partner Komeito more than…
Uncategorized Japan’s 2017 Snap Election: The More That Changes.… October 23, 2017 4 Written by Ellis S. Krauss. Ever since the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was formed in 1955, Japan’s party politics and elections have fallen into a…
Uncategorized Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may backfire October 3, 2017 0 Written by Nick Bisley. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of the national parliament, the Diet, on September 28, with an election to be held…
China Caught between Trump and North Korea, Japan is nervous and alone September 11, 2017 0 Written by Taku Tamaki. North Korea’s nuclear test, by far its largest, came less than a week after it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew…
Uncategorized Shinzo Abe pushes constitutional reform amid heated debate within Japan September 1, 2017 0 Written by Nick Bisley. On May 1 2017, the largest vessel in the Japanese Maritime Self Defence fleet, the vast helicopter carrier Izumo sailed out of Yokosuka.…
South China Sea Japan's growing role in the South China Sea July 17, 2017 1 Written by Reinhard Drifte. Last month, it was reported that Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force`s (MSDF) largest warship, the Izumo helicopter carrier (19,500 t), together with…
China As tensions in the region rise, Japan again debates its pacifist constitution May 16, 2017 0 Written by Craig Mark. Japan could finally be gearing up for the first-ever change to its constitution. In a recent video address to a pro-constitutional…
Foreign Policy The Trump Administration and Japan May 11, 2017 0 Written by Yee-Kuang Heng. Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo moved quickly to become the first foreign leader to meet with Donald Trump in Trump Tower…
China Abe’s Subtle Apology: Can It Help Japan Become ‘Normal’? September 1, 2015 0 Written by Niv Horesh. Visitors to Japan can feel this is a country undergoing an identity crisis. After more than two decades of economic stagnation,…
