Opposition Party Merger Plan Collapses
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 17, 2018.
Tag Archives: Katsuya Okada
Abe Shuns Nobel Peace Prize Winner
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 15, 2018.
Today in Japan (12.31.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 31, 2017.
Today in Japan (12.20.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 20, 2017.
Today in Japan (11.29.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 29, 2017.
The Dippy Opposition
Well, they’ve done it again. Just when you see glimmers of hope that Japan’s opposition parties might just be getting their acts together, they go and show you once again just how incompetent they really are.
Burying the Lessons of the Iraq War
There is probably no better method of predicting what people and institutions might do in the future than to have an accurate understanding of their behavior in the past. So much of what is popularly taken as surprising and “unpredictable” might easily have been foreseen by a better knowledge of the contexts, experiences, and the previous actions of the players involved in the construction of an event. When powerholders attempt to suppress the records of official behavior, it is therefore not simply the concern of a handful of cloistered intellectuals, but a matter that can be expected to have real-world impact on future policymaking and the fate of ordinary citizens.
The Return of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
After about a year of hanging about in the background, the issue of Japan’s participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations was suddenly thrust back into the front rank of political debate.
