🇯🇵 Japan

JP-A-00: Militarist Japan and the Pacific War (1931–1945)

JP-A-01: The Yoshida Doctrine and the 1955 System Foundation (1945–1960)

JP-A-02: Abe Shinzo's First Premiership and the 2006–2007 Post-Koizumi Inflection (2006–2007)

JP-A-03: Fukuda Yasuo's Premiership and the Post-Abe-1 *Nejire Kokkai* Management (2007–2008)

JP-A-04: Aso Taro's Premiership and the Final LDP Government Before the 2009 DPJ Landslide (2008–2009)

JP-A-05: The DPJ Government — Hatoyama, Kan, and Noda Cabinets (2009–2012)

JP-A-06: 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

JP-B-01: Abe Shinzo's Return to Power (2012)

JP-B-02: Abenomics — The Three Arrows (2012–2020)

JP-B-03: 2014 Cabinet Reinterpretation of Collective Self-Defence and the 2015 Peace and Security Legislation

JP-B-05: TPP, CPTPP, and Japan's Emergence as Trans-Pacific Trade Leader (2010–2026)

JP-C-01: Suga Yoshihide's Premiership (September 2020 – October 2021)

JP-C-02: The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games — Postponement, the No-Spectator Games of July–August 2021, and the Politics of Olympic-Governance Under Pandemic Conditions

JP-C-03: Kishida Fumio's Premiership and the "New Capitalism" Doctrine (October 2021 – October 2024)

JP-C-04: The 2022 National Security Strategy and Japan's Defence Build-Up (2022–2026)

JP-C-05: The Assassination of Abe Shinzo (2022)

JP-D-01: The 2024 LDP Presidential Election and the Ishiba Shigeru Premiership (September 2024 – Present)

JP-D-02: The Ishiba Cabinet Architecture and Operations (October 2024 – Present)

JP-D-03: The Ishiba Minority Government, the 2024 General Election Aftermath, and BoJ Normalisation under Ueda (2024–2025)

JP-D-04: Post-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)

JP-E-01: Japan's Immigration and Foreign-Worker Policy from the 2018 *Tokutei Ginō* Legislation to the 2027 *Ikusei Shūrō* Replacement of the Technical Intern Training Programme, the December 2024 SSW Quota Expansion to 820,000, the 2024 Permanent-Residence-Revocation Diet Debates, and the Ishiba and Post-Ishiba Politics of the Foreign-Worker Question against the *Sanseitō* Restrictionist Surge (2018–April 2026)

JP-F-01: The 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)

JP-F-03: Japan–Korea Relations from Yoon's Reset to Yoon's Impeachment to Lee Jae-myung: Camp David, GSOMIA, and the Forced-Labour Settlement (2022–2025)

JP-F-04: Japan–China Relations from the Fukushima Treated-Water Discharge to Ishiba's Strategic Pragmatism (2022–2025)

JP-F-05: Japan–Taiwan Strategic Alignment from Abe's "Taiwan Emergency" Doctrine to the Ishiba-Era Taiwan-Clause Debate (2022–2026)

JP-F-07: The 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)

JP-G-01: The Bank of Japan and the Unconventional-Monetary-Policy Era (2013–2024)

JP-G-03: Japan's Demographic Transition — Population Decline, Pension Reform, and the Caregiving State (1990–2026)

JP-H-PM-01: Junichiro Koizumi (1942–)

JP-H-PM-02: Shinzo Abe (1954–2022)

JP-H-PM-03: Suga Yoshihide (1948–)

JP-H-PM-04: Kishida Fumio (1957–)

JP-H-PM-05: Fukuda Yasuo (1936–)

JP-J-01: Three Accounts of the Comfort Women Issue and the 2015 Agreement (1932–1945; 1991–2026)

JP-J-03: Yasukuni Shrine, the A-Class War-Criminal Enshrinement, and the Politics of Historical Memory (1978–2025)

JP-K-03: The October 2024 House of Representatives Election, the LDP Slush-Fund Scandal, and the Return of Minority Government (2023–2024)

JP-K-04: The 1 July 2014 Cabinet Decision Reinterpreting Article 9 and the September 2015 Peace and Security Legislation — The Decision Architecture (2012–2016)

JP-N-01: Japan in International Perceptions — Number One, Lost Decades, and Quiet Return (1979–2026)

JP-N-03: Japan'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)

JP-R-01: Japan Governance Books Canon