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29. Mar 2011
Away from home when disaster strikes : Diary from a UK-based Japanese community after the Tohoku catastrophe
earthquake, InFocus, Japan, tsunami
Diary from a UK-based Japanese community after the Tohoku catastrophe
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Are the “flower revolutions” in the Middle East and North Africa endangering stability in China? by Christian Göbel
China, democracy, InFocus
These are fascinating
times, as the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East might well be the
beginning of a “Fourth Wave” of Democracy. The late political scientist Samuel
Huntington once likened clustered incidences of democratizations to “waves”. After
the apparent ebbing out of the “Third Wave”, which between 1974 and the early
1990s swept over Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, the
time might have come for another democratic push. As a political scientist
studying stability and instability of authoritarian regimes, I am extremely
9. Dec 2010
Pushing China further away – giving the Nobel to regime change
China, InFocus
By way of
introduction, let me affirm that of course Liu Xiaobo should not be in prison
for peacefully publishing his opinions on China’s system of government. He
has a long history of conducting a non-violent personal fight against the Party
leadership, the last time I met him was on Tiananmen. He has also guest-lectured here in Aarhus
21. Dec 2009
Separate surnames: the breakdown of families vs. the emancipation of women by Karl Jakob Krogness, Ph.D., Ritsumeikan University
InFocus, Japan
In the last days of August, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) put a decisive end to the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) half century of practically uninterrupted rule. Soon after, 29 September, the new minister of justice, Keiko Chiba (DPJ), announced she would introduce early next year a bill for revising the Civil Code in order to introduce an optional separate surnames system for married couples. Such a bill would arguably reform the family model that has ruled Japanese social life for over a century.
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