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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

The collapse of the Marcos–Duterte alliance ushers in a critical moment for Philippine democracy, as legal accountability ...

Japan’s rice crisis calls for a critical reassessment of agricultural policies that have weakened its food security in an ...