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Waseda University students. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ioelondon/8104365662/sizes/l">UCL institute of Education</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC</a>)

AUG 4, 2016 Article

Higher Education's Role in Japan's Recovery

Japan has been investing in major reforms to improve its higher education system and therefore its economy. The goal is to foster a new class ...

Signing of the U.S. Constitution by Howard Chandler Christy. Public Domain via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#/media/File:Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg">Wikipedia</a>

AUG 1, 2016 Article

The U.S. Election Is a Referendum on American Values

Liberalism is the simple but powerful idea that freedom and equality are values worth defending. It has been a guiding light for U.S. politics ...

JUL 26, 2016 Podcast

Japan's Relationship with its Past and Future

Prime Minister Abe is the leading member of the small but powerful group Nippon Kaigi, which wants to turn its back on the international community ...

Orlando Letelier, Washington D.C., 1976. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orlando_Letelier,_Washingron_DC,_1976_(de_Marcelo_Montecino).jpg">Wikimedia</a>

JUL 19, 2016 Article

Codename: Chilbom

On a fall morning in 1976, a bomb exploded in the middle of Washington. The shock waves were felt for the next 30 years.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/csis_er/8509604657">CSIS</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

JUL 14, 2016 Podcast

Japan's Politics: A Move toward Nationalism or more of the Status Quo?

Was Prime Minister Abe's landslide victory in the July elections a vote of confidence in his ability to jump-start Japan's stagnant economy, or simply a ...