🇯🇵 Japan
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Militarist Japan and the Pacific War (1931–1945)
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JP-A-01The Yoshida Doctrine and the 1955 System Foundation (1945–1960)
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JP-A-02Abe Shinzo's First Premiership and the 2006–2007 Post-Koizumi Inflection (2006–2007)
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JP-A-03Fukuda Yasuo's Premiership and the Post-Abe-1 *Nejire Kokkai* Management (2007–2008)
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JP-A-04Aso Taro's Premiership and the Final LDP Government Before the 2009 DPJ Landslide (2008–2009)
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JP-A-05The DPJ Government — Hatoyama, Kan, and Noda Cabinets (2009–2012)
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Post-Koizumi LDP and the DPJ Interregnum (2005–2012)
7JP-A-00Militarist Japan and the Pacific War (1931–1945)18 September 1931 through 2 September 1945. This document ends exactly where [JP-A-01] begins.Fact-checked13k wJP-A-01The Yoshida Doctrine and the 1955 System Foundation (1945–1960)15 August 1945 through 19 July 1960Fact-checked15k wJP-A-02Abe Shinzo's First Premiership and the 2006–2007 Post-Koizumi Inflection (2006–2007)September 2006 through 25 September 2007Fact-checked16k wJP-A-03Fukuda Yasuo's Premiership and the Post-Abe-1 *Nejire Kokkai* Management (2007–2008)September 2007 through 24 September 2008Fact-checked16k wJP-A-04Aso Taro's Premiership and the Final LDP Government Before the 2009 DPJ Landslide (2008–2009)September 2008 through August 2009 and 16 September 2009Fact-checked12k wJP-A-05The DPJ Government — Hatoyama, Kan, and Noda Cabinets (2009–2012)30 August 2009 through 26 December 2012Verified14k wJP-A-062011 Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster11 March 2011 through mid-2025Verified5k w
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Abe's Second Tenure (2012–2020)
4JP-B-01Abe Shinzo's Return to Power (2012)August 2012 through July 2013Verified8k wJP-B-02Abenomics — The Three Arrows (2012–2020)December 2012 through September 2020Verified15k wJP-B-032014 Cabinet Reinterpretation of Collective Self-Defence and the 2015 Peace and Security LegislationDecember 2012 through end-FY 2017Fact-checked13k wJP-B-05TPP, CPTPP, and Japan's Emergence as Trans-Pacific Trade Leader (2010–2026)March 2010 through May 2026Fact-checked12k w
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Suga and Kishida (2020–2024)
5JP-C-01Suga Yoshihide's Premiership (September 2020 – October 2021)August 2020 through 4 October 2021Fact-checked14k wJP-C-02The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games — Postponement, the No-Spectator Games of July–August 2021, and the Politics of Olympic-Governance Under Pandemic Conditions7 September 2013 through October 2021Fact-checked12k wJP-C-03Kishida Fumio's Premiership and the "New Capitalism" Doctrine (October 2021 – October 2024)29 September 2021 through 1 October 2024Fact-checked14k wJP-C-04The 2022 National Security Strategy and Japan's Defence Build-Up (2022–2026)2022–2026Fact-checked12k wJP-C-05The Assassination of Abe Shinzo (2022)8 July 2022 through December 2024Fact-checked8k w
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Ishiba and Beyond (2024–present)
4JP-D-01The 2024 LDP Presidential Election and the Ishiba Shigeru Premiership (September 2024 – Present)14 August 2024 through early 2025Fact-checked14k wJP-D-02The Ishiba Cabinet Architecture and Operations (October 2024 – Present)1 October 2024 through early 2026Fact-checked12k wJP-D-03The Ishiba Minority Government, the 2024 General Election Aftermath, and BoJ Normalisation under Ueda (2024–2025)27 September 2024 through May 2025Fact-checked14k wJP-D-04Post-Ishiba LDP Leadership and Political Realignment — From the Ishiba Minority-Government Premiership through the July 2025 Upper-House Election to the Post-Ishiba LDP Leadership Contest and the 2027 Lower-House Trajectory (September 2024 – April 2026)27 September 2024 through 29 August 2026Fact-checked14k w
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Economic Architecture
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Foreign Policy
5JP-F-01The US–Japan Alliance from Koizumi's "Boots-on-the-Ground" Era to Trump-2 Transactionalism: Basing, Burden-Sharing, Collective Self-Defense, and the Counterstrike Turn (2005–2026)2005 through 2026Fact-checked11k wJP-F-03Japan–Korea Relations from Yoon's Reset to Yoon's Impeachment to Lee Jae-myung: Camp David, GSOMIA, and the Forced-Labour Settlement (2022–2025)May 2022 through mid-2025 for the main document bodyFact-checked16k wJP-F-04Japan–China Relations from the Fukushima Treated-Water Discharge to Ishiba's Strategic Pragmatism (2022–2025)December 2022 through 29 August 2026Fact-checked19k wJP-F-05Japan–Taiwan Strategic Alignment from Abe's "Taiwan Emergency" Doctrine to the Ishiba-Era Taiwan-Clause Debate (2022–2026)2022 through 2026Fact-checked14k wJP-F-07The Japan–India Strategic Partnership from the Post-Nuclear-Test Estrangement to the Modi-Era "Special Strategic and Global Partnership" — Abe's "Confluence of the Two Seas," the Quad, the High-Speed-Rail and Industrial-Corridor Economic Pillar, and the China-Balancing Logic and Its Limits (2005–2026)2005 through 2026Fact-checked10k w
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Economic and Social Policy
2JP-G-01The Bank of Japan and the Unconventional-Monetary-Policy Era (2013–2024)1997 through August 2024 for the main document bodyFact-checked14k wJP-G-03Japan's Demographic Transition — Population Decline, Pension Reform, and the Caregiving State (1990–2026)1990–2026 (with extended baseline reference to the 1985 *Kōseinenkin-hoken-hō* revision creating the…Fact-checked10k w
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Biographies
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Contested Legacies
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Key Decisions
2JP-K-03The October 2024 House of Representatives Election, the LDP Slush-Fund Scandal, and the Return of Minority Government (2023–2024)Late 2023 through the end of 2024Fact-checked18k wJP-K-04The 1 July 2014 Cabinet Decision Reinterpreting Article 9 and the September 2015 Peace and Security Legislation — The Decision Architecture (2012–2016)December 2012 through March 2016 as the core decision windowFact-checked10k w
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External Lens
2JP-N-01Japan in International Perceptions — Number One, Lost Decades, and Quiet Return (1979–2026)1979–2026, weighted post-2000Fact-checked10k wJP-N-03Japan's Compound Demographic Crisis — Record-Low TFR, Pension and Elderly-Healthcare Sustainability, Specified Skilled Worker Expansion, and the Pronatalism-Immigration-Productivity Trilemma under Ishiba and Post-Ishiba (2024–April 2026)2024 through April 2026Fact-checked13k w
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