Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, ...

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Too much studying is harmful,’ Mao insisted, noting that few top scorers in the keju had gone on to accomplish great things.

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Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the ...

But Ravn makes it clear from the start that no argument is equal to our sheer emotional susceptibility to made things: we are ...

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Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic challenges facing Japan: high taxes, inflation, low wages and the cost of living.

Iza Ding teaches political science at Northwestern. The Performative State came out in 2022.