Aging Population Cuts Labor Force
In recent years, the Japanese population has been decreasing significantly and this has brought about major difficulties related to a workforce shortage, and also leading to a reduction in GDP growth.
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The Case Against Aegis Ashore
While the Abe administration presents Aegis Ashore as an essential and relatively uncontroversial contribution to the defense of Japan from the North Korean threat, in reality the deployment of this missile defense system risks further destabilizing the security situation in Northeast Asia, especially with regard to Russia.
Okinawa Double Election Set for September 30
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on August 19, 2018.
China Overtakes Japan as UN Contributor
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on August 15, 2018.
The Return of Korematsu v. United States
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on June 30, 2018.
Ignorance = LDP Support
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on June 25, 2018.
Major Quake Hits Osaka
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on June 19, 2018.
DHC Television: Cosmetics and Conspiracy Theories
SNA (Tokyo) — Japan’s ultranationalist elite, shut out of the mainstream discourse of a significantly civil society and venues such as broadcast television, have found a cozy new home for their creative history and effusions of ethnic supremacy on the American website YouTube. Although there
Towards an Abe-Kim Summit
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on June 15, 2018.
Okinawa’s Anti-Base Movement Faces Crisis
In mid-2018, Okinawa’s anti-base movement faces a crisis. The struggle to resist construction of a US military base in Nago City’s Henoko district has never been easy. It confronts two governments, Japan and the United States, that deploy all instruments of state power–police, propaganda, intervening in local elections—to get their way.
