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Japan’s growing dependence on coal
Japan’s decision to build 22 new coal-fired power plants makes it an outlier among G7 nations who are moving away from coal. Japan’s coal power plants...
Internationalising Japan’s Higher Education Sector
January and February decides the fate of Japanese students preparing for university entrance exams. This year’s high schoolers have been through a...
Startup Ecosystems and Cities
In creating environments friendly to startups, cities must reach four of the following targets
Developing a Policy Regime to Support the Free Flow of Data
A proposal by the T20 Task Force on Trade, Investment and Globalization
The fallout from the Japan–South Korea trade ruckus on global trade rules
Japan and South Korea are engaged in a trade dispute generated by national security concerns. The fallout from this dispute has the potential to hurt the...
Harvesting the fruits of Abe’s diplomacy
On 20 November 2019, Shinzo Abe became Japan’s longest serving prime minister. Abe has attempted to broaden the scope of Japan’s diplomacy by taking an...
The US–Japan trade deal: small agreement, broad implications
The recent announcement of the US–Japan Trade Agreement (USJTA) must have come as a surprise to many in Japan given its unusual expeditiousness. The...
Ambitions for Japanese Immigration - Summary
A major symposium co-hosted by the Australian National University’s Australian Japan Research Center and the Asia Pacific Initiative
Global Financial Risks and Asia’s Response - Summary
Asia faces a dangerous combination: heightened global financial risks in the context of serious regional financial and economic vulnerabilities combined...
Will Japan’s consumption tax hike fix its fiscal woes?
After two postponements resulting in a delay of four years, the Japanese government at last raised the consumption tax rate from 8 to 10 per cent as of 1...
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