Coming on the heels of ‘gold’, ‘blond’ and ‘wealthy’, ‘north’ is a telling symbol of how Japan saw 2017.
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It’s all about doing things well.
It’s a multi-lingual effect.
You may not know it, but the elementary math wars are raging. Our expert explains the ‘new math’ - why it works for kids, and how to do it.
Even now, 350 years after his birth, the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift remains as sharp and relevant as ever.
Policy needs to focus on making the teaching profession stable and more appealing. South Africa must ensure its locally trained teachers have more reason to stay in the country.
Support for asserting Japan’s military might in response to threats from North Korea and China may destabilize the region.
Living and dying alone presents many challenges for cities, and we’ll need more than technology to meet these. Only an inclusive, innovative response can deliver the essential element of human care.
How culture can inform technological innovations.
They may not be co-ordinated, nor linked in any way. But two events in Asia over the next week will help define Australia’s political and security environment for the next period. First is the convening…
After learning of Ishiguro’s Nobel win, a literature professor recalls her 2006 interview with the writer in a London cafe.
How did a man once suspected of dubious far-right sympathies end up on the threshold of a record third term?
The latest salvo of insults and threats between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim brought the region a little bit closer to war. China, North Korea’s closest trading partner, may be the only way out.
Japan’s security is based on the guarantee that America will protect it, come what may – but that guarantee may no longer be reliable.
In this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd speaks with Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia won a case against Japan's whaling activities at the International Court of Justice.
A nuclear physicist and disarmament expert recommends reading on nuclear disasters, weapons, authoritarianism and climate change.
The most viable nonmilitary solution to the standoff with North Korea is to get China to apply pressure. But that’s not so easy.
Sometimes ‘stuff’ isn’t just stuff.
Australia will be left behind without adequate planning and preparation on fertility issues.
Hokusai’s Great Wave is the enduring image of Japanese art. Less well known is the story of its primary pigment - Prussian blue - which was created in a lab accident in Berlin and sparked ‘blue fever’ in Europe.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of International Studies, La Trobe University
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Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in International Relations, Loughborough University
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Lecturer, Language and Culture, Keele University
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Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
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Antarctic Law Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
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Affiliated Researcher, The Open University
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University