On October 1, 2022, a new fact-checking organization, the Japan Fact-check Center (JFC), was established, and Professor Maiko Ichihara was appointed as a member of its steering committee. JFC is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of maintaining and improving the integrity of the Internet communication space, which has become an important foundation of […]

On September 5, 2022, Professor Nobumasa Akiyama appeared as a commentator on the BS11+ channel news program Inside OUT Broadcast where he talked about the recent NPT conference as well as the pursuit of a “world without nuclear weapons”. The professor commented on the process of the negotiations at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review […]

■ Languages: Japanese and English ■ Translation: NHK simultaneous interpretation (both ways, Japanese-English and English-Japanese) Prof. Mihoko Sumida and Assoc. Prof. Felix Steffek, the duo who published “Legal Innovation: Technology, the Legal Profession and Industrial Change” in March 2022 has teamed up once again to organise a free talk session with the people you want […]

Professor Nobumasa Akiyama appeared on a talk series produced by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation entitled “The End of Nuclear Oblivion in the Ukrainian War” which was recorded in April and released as a podcast on August 19. Three years have passed since the publication of the book that Professor Akiyama co-authored, The End of Nuclear […]

Is Myanmar a Dystopia? Hnin Htet Htet Aung （Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University） August 31, 2022   The Myanmar military has consistently rigged election results to protect its role in political dimensions and its supremacy over the civilian government. Remembering the restart of the country’s liberalization journey in 2011 – almost 20 […]