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July 2, 2014
Japan
Reinterpreting Japan’s Constitution
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed a reinterpretation of Japan’s postwar constitution to allow the military to use force alongside other national militaries, a right that postwar Japanese leaders…
June 2, 2014
Japan
Reading Japan’s Deal With North Korea
Last week, the Japanese government announced a new deal with Pyongyang to reopen discussions over the fate of the Japanese citizens abducted decades ago by the North. While Seoul and Washington worri…
May 16, 2014
Japan
Japan’s New Conversation on Its Constitution
On Thursday, the Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security presented Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with its long anticipated report advocating for loosening the restraints on the u…
January 23, 2014
Japan
The Constancy of Contest with Okinawa
On Sunday, voters in Nago City re-elected their mayor, Susumu Inamine. Compared with his predecessors, Inamine’s margin of victory was high—more than 4,000 votes more than his challenger. Unlike his …
November 24, 2013
Japan
A New Island Is Born...
Japan witnessed the arrival of a new island with a volcanic eruption near Nishinoshima in the Bonin group of islands 600 miles south of Tokyo. In just one day, the land mass grew approximately 100 sq…
