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2013.05.13 Mo Yan’s Creative Reading
Wang Zhongchen
2013.05.01 Relations with Russia: Remembering the Past
Harano Jōji
2013.04.24 Two Years On from Fukushima
Sven Saaler
2013.04.23 Election Campaigns Finally Enter the Internet Age
Ōtani Kōta
2013.04.17 Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady and Japan
Hosoya Yuichi
2013.04.01 The Future of the Japan-Australia Partnership
Ogoura Kazuo
2013.03.18 One Hundred Bags of Rice: Investing in Japan’s Future
Hosoda Haruko
2013.03.05 Japan’s Baseball Squad Set to Go For a Third WBC Title
Jason Coskrey
2013.03.04 Nuclear Power and the Emptiness of Political Promises
Hayakawa Masaya
2013.02.21 Risk-Taking Investors Welcome Abenomics
Itoh Motoshige
2013.02.20 Daniel Inouye, Japanese American Statesman and Hero
Harano Jōji
2013.02.18 Japanese Companies Will Be Tested in 2013
Hirai Takashi
2013.02.14 The Letdown of Abe’s Timid Policy Speech
Sugiura Masaaki
2013.02.06 Acting with an Eye to History
Kawashima Shin
2013.01.28 Diplomatic Strategy Under New Leadership in Japan and South Korea
Ogoura Kazuo
2013.01.16 Japanese Cuisine Behind the Iron Curtain
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
2013.01.08 Criticizing Youth Will Not Make Them Go Abroad
Andrew Horvat
2012.12.31 Three Ways to Boost Japan’s Diplomatic PR Power—For (Almost) Nothing!
Taniguchi Tomohiko
2012.12.20 Differing Attitudes to Confucianism Across East Asia
Wang Min
2012.12.14 Why Noda Decided to Call an Election
Takenaka Harukata
2012.12.05 Why is Homosexuality Absent from Japanese Television?
Kato Yuko
2012.12.04 Rereading “Shūyō” by Nitobe Inazō
Wang Zhongchen
2012.11.28 The Contradictions of “Protest Diplomacy” in East Asia
Ogoura Kazuo
2012.11.06 The Tasks Ahead for Noda and the DPJ
Takenaka Harukata
2012.11.02 Abe Shinzō’s Comeback and Japan’s Outbound M&A
Taniguchi Tomohiko
2012.11.01 How to Fix Japanese Jūdō
Sakai Kazunari
2012.10.31 El Sistema Brings Music to Sōma, Fukushima
Hosoda Haruko
2012.10.26 Energy Politics in Japan and Germany
Sven Saaler
2012.10.25 An Uncertain Year Ahead Following the Leadership Elections
Masuzoe Yōichi
2012.10.11 Japan and China Should Get Back to Basics
Ogoura Kazuo

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