The Globalist

How does Japan compare to the leading economies for unionization levels?

Overcoming nationalistic barriers is more urgent than ever for pro-Western Asian countries.

Similar voting systems yield very different participation rates.

In its shameless pursuit of Japanese suprematism, the Abe government declares Hitler’s racist diatribe as apt literature for schoolchildren.

How will the Trump Administration shift economic and security ties with Japan?

Following the U.S. withdrawal from the TPP, the Asia-Pacific region faces a lot of internal divisions over trade strategies.

In a curious role reversal, it was a Japanese Prime Minister who stole the march on Trump and his anti-globalism chants.

Despite Trump in the White House, Japan aims to get the TPP anyway and keep U.S. troops in the country too. Is that realistic?

How the constitutional monarch may be able to set the tone for social change in Japan.

Can Japan financially afford to be the muscular regional leader that Abe and the ruling LDP want it to be?