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Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (20-26 November 2023)

Economic

Earth to warm up to 2.9C even with current climate pledges: UN

The world’s emissions-cutting pledges are nowhere near enough to curb the effects of climate change, with Earth on track for warming a potentially catas....

November 29, 2023 Taiwan , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Komeito , Kishida , US Supply Chain Resilience Council , Oil Markets , Gaza Truce , Third Plenum , North Korea satellite launch , CETC , China-Saudi Arabia Currency Swap

Will Kishida go for a snap election in Japan?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Amid speculation that Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida might call for a snap election, the news of fissures in the LDP-Komeito alliance would not be a welcome prospect for the future of Japanese politics. The speculation emerged following a flu....

June 15, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , security threats , LDP , Komeito , Fumio Kishida , China threat , Snap election , policy differences , North Korea’s missile launch

North Korea’s ICBM Launch Worrying – Part II

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Response from Japan

As an immediate neighbour, Japan was alarmed by North Korea’s missile launch. It was concerned as the missile landed about 125 miles from Japan’s coastline. In the preceding months, North Korea’s ballistic missile ....

December 05, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Komeito , Yoon Suk-yeol , collective self-defence , Mayu , Haguro , NDPG , missile defence system , JDP

Fresh Challenges for Kishida as Upper House Elections are held on 10 July

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

With less than a year in office, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida now confronts domestic political challenge when the country’s Upper House goes to the polls on 10 July in which his ruling coalition government expects to get a majority, which....

July 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Women empowerment , SDF , LDP , Article 9 , Komeito , Fumio Kishida , Upper House , declining birth rate , collective self-defence , Japan-US alliance

Can Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution be ever Amended?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

The worsening security environment in the Northeast Asian region triggered by China’s brazen aggressive and threatening foreign policy posture and North Korea’s nuclear and continuous missile firings has led to a debate in Japan if its pacifist p....

May 25, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Security Environment , Constitution , Abe Shinzo , LDP , Article 9 , Article 96 , Diet , Amendment , regional tensions , shadow of the past , opinion polls , CDP , Komeito , ‘American imposition’ , Suga Yoshihide