This research note summarises years of planning and conducting field research on Japan’s political and business relations in Southeast Asia. Japan Studies usually, and obviously, means conducting research either in Japan or in the researcher’s home country. However given Japan’s...

This article centres on the nature of the Thai state amid a shifting global economic environment, examining it through the lens of foreign direct investment and specifically Japan's declining foreign direct into the kingdom since 2015. It posits that the Thai state is neither a liberal democracy...

In December 2010, nightclubs in Osaka were raided by Japan's police. Such raids quickly spread to Tokyo, and sparked a nationwide crack-down on nightclubs that drew global media attention to the fact that – unbeknownst to many Japanese – it was illegal during Japan's post-Second World War...