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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.

Russian Aggression Renews Japanese Claim on Kuril Islands

Hélène de Lauzun March 11, 2022

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is resurrecting other clashes over territorial sovereignty elsewhere in the world. Japan is taking advantage of the Ukrainian opportunity to make its claim to the Kuril Islands archipelago heard again, which it has disputed with Russia for more than 70 years. The Kuril Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands located between […]

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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)

Russian Aggression Renews Japanese Claim on Kuril Islands

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