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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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April 2, 2015
Asia
Japan's Reckoning With a Rising China
CFR Senior Fellow Sheila A. Smith introduces her new book, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China.
June 19, 2012
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Aum Shinrikyo
A profile of the Japanese religious cult that carried out the 1995 subway sarin attack.
September 9, 2010
Japan
The DPJ’s Leadership Contest
No two candidates could present such a different image for the identity of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The citizen activist-turned-bureaucratic reformer-turned-party president has been cha…
May 15, 2017
Japan
Helen Hardacre: Political Realignment Among Japan’s Religions
Shinto priests walk in a line to attend a ritual to usher in the upcoming New Year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan on December 31, 2016 (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon).
September 6, 2018
Human Rights
Human Rights Safeguards Take a Backseat in New Global Economics Institutions
As states struggle to balance commercial interests with the promotion of human rights, social safeguards in trade and loan agreements—often included at the insistence of Western countries—are increas…
