An article based on a roundtable discussion that Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law participated in, “Democracy Turning Its Back on the International Order: Can Pride and Strategy for Global Engagement Be Recovered?” was published in the January 31, 2024 issue of Gaiko. The article discusses the direction we should take in […]

  On October 30, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) held the 32nd GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar titled “Protection of Fundamental Rights in Online Platform Spaces: A Focus on the EU Digital Services Act,” inviting Dr. Yumiko Nakanishi, Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Hitotsubashi University. Professor Nakanishi began by […]

On September 30, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) at Hitotsubashi University hosted the 31st GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar titled “The Peril of Hyper-Presidentialism in the Philippines,” featuring Mr. Michael Henry Yusingco, LL.M., a Senior Research Fellow at the Ateneo Policy Center within the School of Government at Ateneo de Manila University. […]

On April 24, 2024, a comment of Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law on the Asahi Shimbun article, “Just for Being Born Rohingya: The Persecution in a Border Town Today” was published. This article is about the Rohingya people who continue to face discrimination and persecution in the harsh situation in Myanmar. […]

On July 30, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) held a brown bag lunch seminar titled “Aligning values and interests: Japanese and Australian democracy support in the Pacific and Southeast Asia” which invited three experts specializing in Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and international development. This event marked the launch of the report […]