Public records: Here today, gone tomorrow…
First published by The Japan Times Japan’s fascination with cherry blossoms extended well beyond the two-week viewing season this...
Category: Geopolitics
What to expect at the G20 Osaka Summit
Japan will host the G20 Summit on the 28th and 29th of June in Osaka. The G20 is a yearly...
What the world can learn from Japan
First published by The Japan Times Japan’s history of rapid growth, bubble economy, followed by economic slowdown and deflation will...
Embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution
We are at the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution. What are its implications and what measures should Japan...
Japan must do more to support the US-Japan alliance
The US-Japan security alliance has been the cornerstone of Asia-Pacific regional order since the 1960s. It may well still...
Stay calm, Mr. President
Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari likens most terrorists as a powerless fly trying to destroy a china...
Follow Japan’s thought leaders
Isolated from the West in 1635 by the Tokugawa shogunate, the culture of modern-day Japan remains in part a...
Haunting questions of youth activism in Japan
Not since the 1960 ANPO demonstrations have so many students demonstrated. Sixty thousand SEALDs (‘Students Emergency Action for a...
China’s economic downturn could get nasty
How might China’s economic downturn impact Japan, the US and the world? Beacon Reports editor-in-chief Richard Solomon put that...