France will be hosting the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), from November 30th to December 11th, 2015. COP 21 will be a crucial conference, as…
A number of evolutions have characterized China’s direct Northeast Asian environment in 2013 and 2014. North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong-un pursued a more assertive foreign and security policy, thereby isolating North Korea further; ties between China and South Korea…
Japan Analysis‘ 32nd issue comes at the end of a year of analysis of Japanese current affairs, dominated by interrogations about the current and coming orientations of Abe Shinzo’s second term: after years of governmental instability and in a tense…
In September 2012, the world discovered how much Sino-Japanese relations have deteriorated since the mid-2000s after violent anti-Japanese protests enflamed Chinese public opinion. In Europe and the United States, some were concerned about the repercussions of these tensions on regional…
The two articles of analysis give a first appraisal of the reform law governing finance companies for credit, which came into effect in June 2010. In the archaic financial system of the 1990s, a non-banking market that was not much…
Summary – CLOSE UP ON THE NEWS – The electoral prospects of Minshutô’s (not so) new leadership The repercussions of the North Korean crisis – POINTS OF NEWS – Kitaoka Shin’ichi, “The end of the Tanaka style of politics, and…
Summary – CLOSE UP ON THE NEWS – Japan-China relations warmer still The government manages to push through the Diet a series of tax laws A limited reform of the civil service – POINTS OF NEWS – Hatoyama Yûkio, “Behind…