Masahiro MAEDA (Associate professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University) In recent years, Japanese cities have been experiencing a decline in neighborhood communities due to population decline and aging, as well as excessive commercialization of housing due to urban redevelopment. As a result, people have lost opportunities to actively engage with their...
In recent decades, following the terrorist attacks in the USA on September 11, 2001, a securitization of immigration policy has been identified in many Western industrialized countries. In the case of Japan, however, issues of public and national security have played a central role in immigration policy since the early 1950s and have helped to...
2025 jähren sich die Atombombenabwürfe auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki zum 80. Mal. Während der Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa mit der Kapitulation Deutschlands bereits im Mai 1945 geendet hatte, führten die Abwürfe im August 1945 das Ende des Kriegsgeschehens im Pazifik herbei. Die Detonationen zerstörten die beiden japanischen Städte fast vollständig und brachten abertausenden Menschen den...