On January 18, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted a workshop/webinar, “Hong Kong as a Political Subject in the US, UK, and Japan.” We invited three panelists: Kennedy Wong (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Southern California), Venita Yeung (Policy Officer at Stand with Hong Kong, UK / Secretariat of the All-Party […]

How Disinformation Erodes the World’s Largest Democracy Niranjan Sahoo （Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi） February 26, 2024 Introduction Recently, a prominent social media analyst called India the disinformation capital of the world. This is corroborated by many recent surveys and reports. According to a recent study, the country saw a record 214 percent […]

On February 15, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) held the 8th Zoom meeting as part of the GGR Intensive Seminar entitled “Countering Disinformation and Protecting Democracy” held in February 2023. The participants of the GGR intensive seminar are currently working on developing essays on strategies to combat dis(mis)information based on the outcomes […]

On December 3, 2023, Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law commented on the Tokyo Shimbun article, “Military Regime Begins to Collapse: Dissatisfaction with Japan Expressed by Myanmar’s Pro-democracy “Foreign Minister” during her Visit to Japan.” The article discusses the visit to Japan in November by Zin Ma Aung, Foreign Minister of the […]

GGR will hold the 25th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below:   Title Dispute Settlement Outside the State: Evidence from Italy Speaker Davide Barrera (Associate Professor, University of Turin, Italy. Research Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto) Date  February 21, 2024 (Wed.) Time 15:00-16:00 Venue Kunitachi Campus, Hitotsubashi University (Venue will be […]