Overview
Asia Dialogues advanced cross-cultural dialogue and offered critical insights on how to reimagine the international system.
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 ...
JUN 24, 2016 • Podcast
Islam and Pluralism in Indonesia
"It's going on 20 years that Indonesia has been engaged in a very important experiment, which is to create a democracy in a Muslim-majority place," explains ...
JUN 6, 2016 • Podcast
How Rights for Indigenous Peoples Can Save the Environment
From Greenland to Kenya, indigenous peoples are fighting for their land against governments, corporations, and climate change. UN special rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, herself an indigenous ...
MAY 17, 2016 • Podcast
"Religious Harmony" Regulations Creating Dissonance in Indonesia
Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch discusses the complex situation in Indonesia, including the 2006 religious harmony regulation supposed to protect religious minorities, but which in ...
MAY 9, 2016 • Podcast
A Filmmaker's Experience on Leaving Japan
Documentary filmmaker and TV journalist Kyoko Gasha discusses her film "Mothers' Way, Daughters' Choice," which is about Japanese women (like she herself) who remade their ...
MAY 3, 2016 • Podcast
Gender Identity in Japan
Sonja Pei-fen Dale teaches at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University, where she specializes in LGBT gender issues and identities in Japan. In this fascinating conversation about gender ...
APR 28, 2016 • Podcast
Political and Cultural Challenges to Gender Parity in Japan
In the Global Gender Gap Report, Japan usually ranks around 100 out of 140 countries, says Mari Miura, a specialist on gender in Japan. The main reasons ...
APR 26, 2016 • Podcast
Feminism: The New "F-word" in Japan?
Senior Fellow Devin Stewart speaks with Natsumi Ikoma, the Center for Gender Studies director, International Christian University, Japan, about the state of feminism in Japanese ...
MAR 11, 2016 • Podcast
Gender and Sexuality in Japan
Senior Fellow Devin Stewart speaks with sociologist James Farrer (Sophia University, Tokyo) about the changing norms around gender, sexual rights, dating, and marriage in Japan. ...
MAR 1, 2016 • Podcast
Human Rights in China with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Senior Fellow Devin Stewart speaks to scholar Jeffrey Wasserstrom, of University of California, Irvine, about the current state of Chinese media, politics, leadership, and human ...