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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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