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July 11, 2022: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, was interviewed by TV4 on the death of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He describes Shinzo Abe as a politician who tried to wash away Japan’s bad reputation after the wars with neighboring countries. You can watch the interview here (in Swedish).

More than half of the year 2022 has passed – here ISDP highlights some of the publications from the last six months on topics such as the war in Ukraine and its effects on different regions in Asia, the election in South Korea, economic self-defense, the crisis in Sri Lanka, challenges for the democratic world […]

July 11, 2022: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, was interviewed in SVT’s Morgonstudion and talked about the death of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the election in Japan. You can watch the interview here (in Swedish).

July 11, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), contributed to the Japan Forward Podcast “Real Issues, Real Voices, Real Japan Podcast” and talked about Japan-Korea Relations. You can listen to the podcast here.

July 8, 2022: It is with great sadness that ISDP and its Japan Center have received the news about the assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Abe Shinzô. He was a bold politician taking policy initiatives both in the economic and political field. His economic policy, which was given the name ‘Abenomics’, aimed at taking […]

July 8, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Women in Japanese Politics: Current Obstacles and Future Opportunities” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Japan stands out among democracies in Northeast Asia as both the region’s oldest democracy as well as one with a surprisingly low level of female political representation. Taking stock of […]

July 8, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), was interviewed by Times Now on the death of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “India has lost a dear friend”, said Jagannath Panda. You can watch the interview here.

July 8, 2022: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, was interviewed by the Swedish SVT on the death of Shinzo Abe. Lars Vargö describes that this type of shooting is rare in Japan. You can listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

July 8, 2022: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, was interviewed by the Swedish Sveriges Radio P1 on the Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe being shot during a speech. You can listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

July 8, 2022: In connection with President Xi Jinping’s visit to Hong Kong on July 1 this year, Professor Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, who is now based in New Zealand and a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by Radio France Internationale (RFI). Here you can find a transcript of the interview, which was […]