The Indo-Pacific region has received growing attention from the international community ever since Former American President Trump presented the United States’ ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP) strategy at the 2017 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Hanoi. This is not fundamentally surprising. … [Read more]
Japan currently forbids dual nationality due to conflicting regional and national interests and to retain competitive economic edge. In an age of global interconnectedness and rapid demographic changes in the country, Governance Post Editor Maia… [Read more]
Women’s rights are often used as means to an end, instrumentalised for political, cultural, religious and economic purposes beyond the advancement of justice. MIA student Pernilla Söderberg sheds light on how the unresolved issue of… [Read more]
In the first part of our ‘Climate for Change’ series, Governance Post Editor Isaac Ward-Fineman explains Japan’s upswing in coal use and offers a way for it to get back on track with emissions reductions.… [Read more]
Four years after the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident and the subsequent shutdown of all nuclear plants in Japan, the Abe government announced earlier this year that it would gradually restart its nuclear energy production, sparking criticisms both… [Read more]