On December 9, 2023, the Nikkei Shimbun published an article entitled “Aiming for Nuclear Disarmament, Proposal with Chinese and Russian Experts for NPT26 Meeting,” quoting remarks of Professor Nobumasa Akiyama at a press conference who attended the third session of the International Group of Eminent Persons. The conference, in which members from both nuclear-weapon states […]

On December 11, 2023, the RAND Corporation released a report of an international conference on challenges facing democracies, “Democracy at Risk?” in which Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law participated. Against the backdrop of concerns about the declining trend of global democracies and the increasing loss of traction of allied efforts to […]

On March 1, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) at Hitotsubashi University hosted the 26th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar titled “The Effects of Warring and Civil Oligarchs on Colombia’s Subnational Democracy” featuring Dr. Jan Boesten as a speaker. Dr. Boesten is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin and an Associate Member, […]

On December 4, 2023, Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law published her comment on the Asahi Shimbun article, “I Will Never Return to Hong Kong in My Life: Agnes Chow from Hong Kong Announces Departure for Canada.” This article is about Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow, who was asked by Hong […]