The G7’s limited membership of like-minded countries gives it significant power to bring about meaningful economic growth.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Japan
Displaying 321 - 340 of 456 articles
Two prominent MIT physicists ask whether for nuclear weapons, less is more
Beneath the usual pomp and circumstance of Obama’s weeklong visit to Asia lies a clear message for aggressors in the region. An East Asia expert from UC Berkeley reads between the lines.
Sino-Japanese rivalry might well come to dominate this year’s G7 and G20.
There are days when you just want to think about buttercups and Jamie Vardy.
The decision on who would build Australia’s next generation of submarines carried just as much anticipation in Japan as it did in Australia.
The Conversation’s experts respond to key aspects of the announcement that French company DCNS will be build Australia’s next fleet of submarines.
Over 8,500 were killed in the 2015 Nepal earthquake, so how is the country coping?
The principal consequence of Australia’s inevitable but little-debated decision to acquire submarines is to contribute to a rapidly escalating regional arms race.
The concept of living heritage can help us make decisions that go beyond preserving historical facades to protect and add to, rather than freeze, the stories and layers of the past.
Worries about overpopulation aren’t being felt everywhere.
Remediation will never get radiation to zero in the area affected by the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Rather than safety, the conversation should focus on acceptable risk.
The nuclear operator was nowhere near adequately covered for the disaster. And it’s not just a Japanese problem.
The world economy needs China, but Beijing has needs of its own. No wonder the leadership is putting so much effort into a year of negotiation.
The defence white paper is silent on where Australia’s new fleet of 12 submarines will be acquired.
China and Japan don’t get on. This is a problem for them and for the rest of the world given their economic and strategic importance. It hasn’t always been this way, though. Japan once acknowledged China’s…
Japan’s ageing population is at the point that Australia is forecast to reach in 2056. The Japanese have had to develop new models of aged care in the community and we can learn a lot from them.
The 2011 Japan tsunami illustrates how more marine creatures are crossing the oceans than ever before - and not all of them are friendly travellers.
Famously apathetic for decades, Japan’s youth are up in arms over the government’s efforts to make the country’s constitution less pacifist.
Australia looks set to continue to confront its core foreign policy dilemma: balancing relations between its largest trading partner, China, and its key security partners, the US and Japan.
Top contributors
-
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University
-
Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
-
Lecturer in International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia
-
Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
-
Lecturer in International Relations, Loughborough University
-
Lecturer, Language and Culture, Keele University
-
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
-
Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
-
Antarctic Law Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
-
Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
-
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Sendai Shirayuri Women’s College
-
Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
-
PhD Candidate, Department of English Language & Literature, The Open University
-
Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England
