The paper describes the implications of the 2022 Upper House Election for the major political parties following the death of former PM Shinzo Abe.

KAS Japan Country Representative Rabea Brauer was interviewed by German Media on 8 and 9 July following the shooting and later the death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

In this paper, the author expresses his opinions about the current status and future issues of the German-Japanese energy and environmental cooperation in light of his previous experiences.

This conference report summarises the key take-aways and recommendations from the International Leadership Conference ‘Universe to Equiverse: Start the Ripple’, jointly organised with TalentNomics India, held from 9-10 December 2021.

This report is an offshoot of the The Path to Success: How Women-Owned Businesses Transform in the Era of Digitalisation Volume 1 and 2 and takes a closer look at how, through alternative financing models, digitalisation can expand women-owned SMEs’ financing options.

With the movement for gender equality gaining momentum around the world, the gender situation in Japan is drawing attention both domestically and internationally. KAS Japan will hold a series of events titled, ‘Women in Japan’, to explore current developments in Japan’s gender environment. Our third webinar, ‘Women in Japan: Breakthroughs in Women Business Leadership’ will focus on the business aspect out of the three pillars of politics, business, and society. We will focus on Germany, a country which has historically similar views on gender roles to Japan but is more advanced in gender equality. Through Germany’s evolving policies, we can learn pragmatic and realistic next steps for Japan. During the webinar, we intend to discuss possible policy recommendations, which – once formulated – help to foster change to improve the current situation in Japan for future women business leaders.

The papers in this volume—Age of Ferment: Developments in Asian–European Trade Relations— examine the role of trade in facilitating recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second in the series of events titled, ‘Women in Japan’, the ‘Women in Japan: Updating Gender Roles in Society’ webinar took place on April 4, 2022. The webinar focused on learning best practices from Scandinavian countries (Norway) that have been successful in their gender policy on the societal front to understand how they have achieved their current gender situation by comparing it with the present state in Japan.

The volume by KAS SOPAS contains country-specific papers or case studies on trade, labour, and China’s growing political influence in the Greater Mekong Region.

Southeast Asia in focus: In no other region is the economic, the political and military rise of China so striking and so powerful; in no other region does Beijing question the rules-based international order (especially in the South China Sea) so aggressively. Adaptation strategies to the rise of Beijing and the growing conflict with the […]