Soft power is key for Japan to ‘flourish’ globally
The writer says: "In an international community that is increasingly divided by geopolitical confrontations, Japan must correctly recognise and steadily exercise its own 'latent…
Akihiko Tanaka
Japan’s raid on alleged diesel cartel triggered by scale of collusion
The Japan Fair Trade Commission raided the companies under its investigative authority, which allows it to conduct compulsory searches and seizures based on a court warrant with…
In 2022, beleaguered democracy showed resilience
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed how incapable an authoritarian regime is of rectifying its leader’s ill-advised decisions, the author states.