On July 31, 2023, comments of Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law on the Asahi Shimbun article, “Posing in Front of the Eiffel Tower: LDP Women’s Bureau’s Training in France, Draws Wave of Criticism,” was published. This article discusses a controversial photo allegedly taken by the LDP Women’s Bureau during a training […]

Malaysia State Election 2023: Prospects for the “Unity Government” Muhamad Takiyuddin Ismail (Associate Professor in the Political Science Program, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia） October 6, 2023 Background Malaysia has once again held a round of elections, nine months after the 15th Malaysian General Election 2022 (GE15), which led to the formation of the “unity government” led […]

On August 29, 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted a GGR  Brown Bag Lunch Seminar titled “Humanitarianism in Theory and Practice: The Case of Solidarity-based Assistance in Myanmar” featuring Masao Imamura (Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yamagata University). In this seminar, Prof. Imamura provided an overview on the approach to […]

Problems Facing U.S. Disinformation Measures Kazuki Ichida (Visiting Researcher, Cyber Security Research Institute, Meiji University) October 3, 2023 In Japan, countermeasures of the United States against disinformation are considered to be advanced. However, the U.S. is facing a serious problem in implementing such countermeasures. In this paper, countermeasures against information and cognitive warfare from overseas […]

On October 16, 2023, the president and faculty members of the Ecole Haute Horlogerie Supérieure des Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France will visit Hitotsubashi. In order to expand academic exchanges between the two countries’ leading academic institutions in the social sciences, we will hold a workshop between EHESS faculty members and Hitotsubashi University faculty/graduate students […]