A video titled “Information Warfare: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Battle to Shape Public Perception,” co-produced by The Japan Times and the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR), Hitotsubashi University, was released on March 27, 2024. In this video, Professor Tetsuro Kobayashi of Waseda University, Professor Maiko Ichihara of Hitotsubashi University, and Mr. Jonathan Soble from […]

GGR will hold the 33rd GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below:   ■Title: Britain and Japan in the 1973 Middle East Oil Crisis: Washington’s Silent Partners ■Speaker: Dr. Erika Miller (Assistant Professor, University of Niigata Prefecture) ■Date/Time: November 27, 2024 (Wednesday), 12:40-13:40 ■Place:  Kunitachi Campus, Hitotsubashi University (The venue will […]

On 6 February 2024, a comment of Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law on the Asahi Shimbun article, “Hong Kong Police Issue Warrant for Canada-Based Agnes Chow on National Security Law Violation for Failing to Appear” was published. This article discusses how Agnes Chow, a Hong Kong democracy activist currently residing in […]

Measures to Tackle Delusional Political Campaigns Parin Jaruthavee (Researcher, King Prajadhipok’s Institute） Waralee Pitakwong (Independent researcher) November 11, 2024 Introduction To quote the classic work Absent Mandate, “Absent mandates are likely to be the rule, not the exception. Elections decide who shall govern, but rarely the substance of public policy.”[1] Political parties are well known […]