While the JISR offers a promising model for Japan to accept student refugees from Gaza, support for employment and ...

Takuro Kikkawa is a professor at the College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, where he teaches comparative politics and international relations. His recent research ...

Trumpian trade policy promises a period of spasmodic aggression and persisting uncertainty. What is clear, however, is that the United States’ focus will be principally on its relationship with China ...

Indonesia's underperforming VAT system should bring the informal sector into the tax framework, closing loopholes that cost ...

Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest reveals ambivalence towards human rights violations made in the pursuit of anti-drug policy.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious food security program integrates the military into civilian affairs, ...

Security interests are reshaping Japan’s developmental aid policy and its commitment to the liberal international order.

China’s pivot to domestic stability and consumption-led growth signals a broader geostrategic realignment amid deepening ...

At the start of Australia’s six-week election campaign, opposition leader Peter Dutton led the opinion polls. By the 3 May ...

Australia's incumbent Labor Party government achieved a landslide victory at the 2025 federal election — the US alliance will ...

Trump’s tariff havoc gives Indonesia the momentum to push regional economic integration, diversify its partners and undertake ...

While the Tokyo District Court has ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church — a rare move made only twice in the ...