Humanitarian Assistance to Myanmar: Assessing Aid Delivery in Conflict Zones Masao Imamura (Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yamagata University) February 2, 2024 Does humanitarian assistance from a faraway country like Japan actually reach people in need of international aid in Myanmar? Those who donate to a humanitarian cause will naturally want to know […]

On November 3, 2023, Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law commented on the Asahi Shimbun article, “Jail Sentence for SNS Posting During Study in Japan: Hong Kong Court Sentences for Inciting National Disunity.” This article is about a university student studying in Japan who was convicted of inciting national division and sentenced […]

On 2 December 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) invited activists from Japan, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Thailand to the first Milk Tea Alliance (MTA) Japan strategy meeting. People working for freedom and human rights in these countries attended, including civil society activists, former legislators, artists, filmmakers, journalists, etc. Participants discussed the current […]

GGR will hold the 24th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below. Anybody who pre-register is welcome to join the event: Title The Dictator’s Dilemma at the Ballot Box: Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies Speaker  Masaaki Higashijima (Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo) Date January […]

We are happy to announce that we’ll hold GGR Workshop/Webinar. The workshop will be in English. Anybody who pre-registers are welcome to join the event. Title Hong Kong as a Political Subject in the US, UK and Japan Panelists ・Kennedy Wong (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Southern California) ・Venita Yeung (Policy Officer at Stand […]