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Japan’s Upper House recently passed the first substantive revision of the Imperial House Law since it took effect in 1947. Beginning Oct. 24, the...
When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited Australia in May, she brought her host a gift chosen with diplomatic care: Crown Melons from...
Japan has no shortage of cultural influence. It has a shortage of ownership. That distinction is becoming harder to ignore. The Cool Japan Fund, the...
BUDAPEST – Pride in Japan has never needed permission. Each summer, hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ rights supporters and allies gather in Tokyo for...
Every four years, Japan wins the same World Cup — not on the pitch, but in the stands, where order and civic virtue are performed for a global...
Usually, if someone or something is trying too hard to be cool, it isn’t. The same could be said of the Cool Japan Fund, a public-private investment...
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On a spring evening in Budapest, I watched the Kodaly Choir of Debrecen close a program of Asian voices with a song from a place few in the hall could...
On May 2, demonstrators opposed to amending Japan’s “peace” Constitution gathered outside the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo....
Seventy-nine education systems worldwide have restricted smartphone use in schools. France banned them for students under 15 in 2018. South Korea...
When every security debate ends in 1945, with Article 9 of the Constitution, Japan loses sight of the world it actually lives in. This is not a...
On a crisp morning on Parliament Hill in Canada’s capital, I watched a group of schoolchildren pose for photographs in front of the Peace Tower. The...