After a resounding victory by Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in Upper House elections, it would appear that the ground has been cleared for Abe to push for the reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution. What next, then, for the student movement opposed to constitutional reinterpretation?...
What are the foreign policy implications of Tsai's recent trip to Japan? Morevoer, can we raise questions about what political forces is it that Tsai is seeking to ally herself with in Japan?...
With the mass participation of young people, can we understand present protests in Japan as something along the lines of Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement?...
With protests against the repeal of Article 9 in Japan, we once again find ourselves in the situation where tens of thousands of individuals gather on the streets in an Asian metropolitan area, but the situation is not reported on globally....