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May 1

Trade Expert: TPP Key for US-Japan Growth

Japan and the United States face some similar challenges, such as heavily indebted governments that have failed to stimulate growth ...

April 23

Haiku and Noh: Journeys to the Spirit World

Haiku poet Madoka Mayuzumi spent a year in Paris from April 2010 to March 2011 as a cultural envoy under ...

April 10

Restoring Political Stability

Several key developments will determine whether the political situation stabilizes over the near to mid-future or will deteriorate further in ...

April 9

China’s North Korea Problem

North Korea’s announcement of a satellite launch—which many see as a missile test—planned around the 100th anniversary of Kim Il-sung’s ...

March 23

Osaka as a Laboratory for Reform

“Institutional reform” has become the standard panacea for Japan’s chronic political and economic ills. But systemic overhauls are costly, and ...