On November 14, 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted a GGR  Talk Session titled “Influence of Undemocratic Narratives from Authoritarian Countries in Japan,” featuring Dr. Tetsuro Kobayashi (Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University). Dr. Kobayashi first touched upon the global phenomenon of the retreat of democracy and the rise […]

On September 25, 2023, Aljazeera featured an interview with Hnin Htet Htet Aung, a Master’s student  at the School of International and Public Policy, for an article titled, “‘Still My People’: Myanmar Diaspora Supports Democracy Struggle Back Home.” This article focuses on how Myanmar people living abroad are helping to sustain the democracy movement with […]

On December 1, 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted a GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar titled “Disinformation, Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, and Present Digital Influence Operations” featuring Mr. Kazuki Ichida (Visiting Researcher, Cyber Security Research Institute, Meiji University). Mr. Ichida started by expressing concern that there is currently no project that comprehensively grasps […]

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, […]