We are delighted to announce the 21st Brown Bag Lunch seminar as follows. Anybody who pre-register is welcome to join the event. Title How We Evaluate Japan’s Diplomacy toward China in 1989: “China’s Desirable Image” from the Perspective of the “Tiananmen Files” Speakers Shiroyama Hidemi  (Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University) Date/Time […]

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 […]