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VOX POPULI: Days of inking a ‘secret pact’ over military matters no longer apply

What will Japan do when it is faced with the risk of war? In 1951, before the United States ended its occupation of Japan, Washington demanded that...

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EDITORIAL: Japan-China ties hurt by sudden disappearance of Chinese scholars

Two Chinese scholars who had been teaching at universities in Japan for many years recently went missing within months of each other after...

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VOX POPULI: Female lawyers still a minority, eight decades after the first

Tomoko Inotsume, the protagonist of “Tora ni Tsubasa” (The Tiger and Her Wings) is modeled on one of the first three female lawyers in Japan....

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EDITORIAL: Move to improve doctors’ working conditions sure to pay dividends

Reforms aimed at improving the working conditions of doctors took effect this month. The new regulations set an overtime limit for employed doctors...

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EDITORIAL: LDP makes only half-hearted stab at reforming political funding

The Liberal Democratic Party’s proposal to amend the law regulating political funds suggests that the ruling party does not clearly understand...

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VOX POPULI: Doctors Without Borders nurse comforts, listens to war victims

Yuko Shirakawa remembers being taken by surprise when she was asked this question: “Have you never thought of becoming a doctor?” “Now that...

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VOX POPULI: Climate change may remove spring from Japan’s calendar

“The Ministry for the Future” is a 2020 climate fiction (“cli-fi”) by U.S. science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson. The titular ministry...

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EDITORIAL: Laws should be developed to rein in government fund projects

The government has released the results of its inspections into its own fund projects and its measures for revising the state fund system. That...

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VOX POPULI: Contemplating Kant’s vision of ‘perpetual peace’ for humanity

German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) lived a rigidly structured life. He rose at 4:55 in the morning, all year-round. His post-lecture...

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EDITORIAL: Comprehensive probe called for following MSDF chopper accident

Two Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) helicopters, carrying a total of eight crew members, crashed into the Pacific Ocean east of Torishima...

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