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CA 52 – Your Investment, Our economy – Dec 2014
This latest quarterly issue of China Analysis, focuses on four rather technical

JA 35 – Japan’s competitiveness and attractiveness issues in 2014: The high-stakes goals of the Abe government, between discourse and reality – Oct. 2014
In line with the topics introduced by the previous issue of Japan

CA 51 – China and Global Crises: The "Culture of Reluctance" – Oct 2014
Western hopes that China will take greater responsibility for dealing with international

JA 34 – Perspectives on Japan’s openness to the world in 2014 – Aug 2014
The number and nature of international rankings published in large-circulation magazines have

CA 49 – China’s Expanding Cyberspace – June 2014
China’s rapid economic growth has led to technical developments which have been

JA 33 – National and International Challenges for the Special Law on Protecting State Secrets – April 2014
The vote held on 6 December 2013 for the Special Law on

CA 47 – China’s Neighbourhood Policy – Feb 2014
All geopolitical developments in Asia are closely linked to China’s new neighbourhood

JA 32 – A Constitutional Revision in Japan in 2014? – Dec 2013
Japan Analysis‘ 32nd issue comes at the end of a year of

CA 46 – Law and Power in Xi’s China – Dec 2013
In China, official party statements tell only half the story. The power

JA 31 – Japan’s Position in the Overall Security Arrangements for the Asia-Pacific Region in 2013 – Oct 2013
In September 2012, the world discovered how much Sino-Japanese relations have deteriorated

CA 45 – The End of Non-Interference? – Oct 2013
China’s international role is changing. But the country is struggling to reconcile

JA 30 – What is the Political Agenda of Abe Shinzō’s Government? – Aug 2013
As the surveys announced, the Liberal-Democratic Party had a sweeping victory during

JA 29 – State and Construction in Japan: Permanent Factors Amidst Change – March 2013
Although the declining Yen seen in late December 2012 initially corresponded to

CA 43 – The Reform of China’s Defence Economy – June 2013
China’s growing defence budget is a symbol for China’s military rise. However,

CA 41 – Shockwaves From the China/Japan Island Dispute – Feb 2013
The Chinese – Japanese dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has the potential

JA 28 – Return to the Past? Japan in the Aftermath of the Parliamentary Elections of 16 December 2012 – Dec 2012
On 16 December 2012 the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan won a

CA 40 – Eighteenth Congress: Expectations on hold – Dec 2012
In November, the Chinese Communist party installed a new leadership – but

JA 27 – Noda’s Government under Attack – Sept 2012
With the Diet’s June 2012 adoption of the project that doubled the

CA 39 – Gaming North Korea – Sept 2012
Relations between China and North Korea are changing. China no longer perceives

JA 26 – The Reelection of Vladimir Putin and North Korean Current Affairs: Views from Japan – June 2012
As each year in April, the new school year has begun in