June 20
Balancing Political Leadership and Bureaucratic Autonomy
Scandals Highlight the Need for a Correction
After decades of reform aimed at strengthening the power of the prime minister and bringing the bureaucracy to heel, a ...
June 14
Strategies for Taxing the Digital Economy
As tensions mount over tax avoidance by US-based multinational tech giants, resident tax expert Shigeki Morinobu reports on multilateral efforts ...
June 12
View from the Social Sector
Engaging with Businesses for Sustainability
The best hope for seriously tackling global problems like environmental degradation and serious labor and human-rights abuses is the formation ...
May 15
The National Defense Strategy and the Indo-Pacific
"The NDS identifies the primary problem as a 'long-term strategic competition' with China and Russia and the erosion of US ...
May 1
Should Civil Servants Offer Allegiance or Expertise?
Lessons from the Moritomo and Kake Scandals
By allowing the prime minister and his circle to “fast-track” officials at their own discretion, the new system opens the ...