On August 13, 2023, the Asahi Shimbun published a comment by Professor Nobumasa Akiyama, Dean of the Graduate School of International and Public Policy, on the article “NPT abandons official document, Preparatory Committee closes, Russia and Iran remain opposed.” The article discusses the first Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, […]

On October 31, 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted the 21th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar “How We Evaluate Japan’s Diplomacy toward China in 1989: ‘China’s Desirable Image’ from the Perspective of the ‘Tiananmen Files’” with Dr. Hidemi Shiroyama (Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University). By analyzing diplomatic documents, […]

On October 16, Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law appeared in a panel, “The War in Ukraine and its Global Impact” in the international conference titled “Forum 2000: For a Democratic World Order” organized by Forum 2000. The panelists discussed what will happen in the world in the future, cooperation among democracies, […]

On October 29, 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) held the 6th 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 October 6, 2023, CADALTV published an interview with Sascha Hannig Nuñez, a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Law, entitled ‘’The Debate over Whether TikTok is a Security Threat.’’ The interview focuses on what TikTok is, how it differs from ByteDance’s other platforms, and why some countries are limiting their presence on TikTok […]