On October 29, 2024, a comment of Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law on the Asahi Shimbun article, “UN CEDAW Recommends Japan to Introduce Separate Surnames for Married Couples and Amend the Imperial Household Law” was published. The article discusses the “concluding observations” issued by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination […]

GGR will hold the 39th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below: ■Title: Figurations of Digital Futures – or: Why We Need to Move from a Perspective of Consequence to One of Emergence ■ Speaker: Andreas Hepp (Professor, Media and Communications, Head of ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany) ■Date/Time: May 7th, […]

Hong Kong through an Artist’s Eyes: Music That Cannot Be Taken Away Interviewer and Author: JEONG Minhee （Doctoral student, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University） April 25, 2025 **This paper was written based on an interview conducted on March 18, 2024. Mr. Wally’s daily routine starts with a refreshing walk. In the mornings, he engages […]

On December 13, 2024, the Hitotsubashi University Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) held a Talk Session entitled “Campaign Policy vs. Policy Implementation: The Case of the Thai Digital Wallet Scheme” with Parin Jaruthavee, a researcher at King Prajadhipok’s Institute, Thailand, as a guest speaker. Ms. Jaruthavee described the Digital Wallet Scheme, a flagship economic […]