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Japanese PM Pledges $5.5 Billion Financial Aid for Ukraine

Tamás Orbán February 21, 2023

Two-thirds of Japanese believe in supporting Ukraine, even if that’s economically harmful to them, as PM Kishida vows to ramp up financial aid.

Yale Professor Considers ‘Mass Suicide’ for Japan’s Elderly

Tristan Vanheuckelom February 18, 2023

Backtracking on his earlier statements, Japan’s celebrity academic argued that terms like “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku” were intended as “abstract metaphors.”

Japan and Korea To Strengthen Ties With NATO Amid Rising Tensions

Tamás Orbán February 2, 2023

Global defense cooperation is needed to address mounting security challenges, as the future of the rules-based international order is at stake, warned the secretary general.

Top Marine General in Japan: U.S. Preparing for War With China

Robert Semonsen January 17, 2023

Lieutenant General James Bierman likened the U.S.’s current military preparations in the Asia-Pacific region to those it took in Ukraine post-2014.

Japan Monitors Chinese Military Manoeuvres

Carlos Perona Calvete January 4, 2023

Japan sent fighter jets to monitor a Chinese aircraft carrier that, together with warships, has been carrying out operations near the Pacific nation’s waters.

Japan Approves Doubling of Military Spending

Tristan Vanheuckelom December 19, 2022

This change for Japan, which had renounced the right to wage war and had adopted a stance of military non-involvement in international disputes, illustrates how much the geopolitical reality has changed in recent years.

Natsume and Newman: How a Japanese Novelist Challenges Us to Confront Human Sinfulness

Kei Uno December 2, 2022

Natsume’s works that wrestled with themes such as sin and responsibility are indebted to his experiences with Christianity.

Japan On Road to Remilitarisation

Tristan Vanheuckelom July 18, 2022

The Japanese are famously split over the issue, which conjures up fears of an ultra-nationalist (if not imperialist) element rearing its head again—and gaining entrance to real power.

Japanese Court Rules Gay Marriage Unconstitutional

David Boos June 27, 2022

A court in Osaka confirmed the Japanese government’s stance that marriage is between a “man and a woman” to “bear children and raise them together.”

Acknowledging Inevitable Subjectivity: Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950)

David Boos April 24, 2022

70 years ago Akira Kurosawa won the Oscar for his film Rashomon. In our world, that demands us to constantly pick sides, the tale of four different versions of a story, that questions our perceptions of reality and our inevitable subjectivity, is as current as ever.

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Japanese PM Pledges $5.5 Billion Financial Aid for Ukraine

Yale Professor Considers ‘Mass Suicide’ for Japan’s Elderly

Japan and Korea To Strengthen Ties With NATO Amid Rising Tensions

Top Marine General in Japan: U.S. Preparing for War With China

Japan Monitors Chinese Military Manoeuvres

Japan Approves Doubling of Military Spending

Natsume and Newman: How a Japanese Novelist Challenges Us to Confront Human Sinfulness

Japan On Road to Remilitarisation

Japanese Court Rules Gay Marriage Unconstitutional

Acknowledging Inevitable Subjectivity: Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950)

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