GGR will hold the 33rd GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below:   ■Title: Britain and Japan in the 1973 Middle East Oil Crisis: Washington’s Silent Partners ■Speaker: Dr. Erika Miller (Assistant Professor, University of Niigata Prefecture) ■Date/Time: November 27, 2024 (Wednesday), 12:40-13:40 ■Place:  Kunitachi Campus, Hitotsubashi University (The venue will […]

On 6 February 2024, a comment of Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law on the Asahi Shimbun article, “Hong Kong Police Issue Warrant for Canada-Based Agnes Chow on National Security Law Violation for Failing to Appear” was published. This article discusses how Agnes Chow, a Hong Kong democracy activist currently residing in […]

Measures to Tackle Delusional Political Campaigns Parin Jaruthavee (Researcher, King Prajadhipok’s Institute） Waralee Pitakwong (Independent researcher) November 11, 2024 Introduction To quote the classic work Absent Mandate, “Absent mandates are likely to be the rule, not the exception. Elections decide who shall govern, but rarely the substance of public policy.”[1] Political parties are well known […]

On July 5, 2024, TV Tokyo released a video titled “Wanted Pro-Democracy Activists Gather in Japan,” in which they introduced a comment from Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law. This video covers the “Japan-Hong Kong Democracy Summit” held in June 2024 at Hitotsubashi University co-hosted by the GGR, which was attended by […]