Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of m

A major new study tracing historical roots of the interplay between policy, population and science in Japan from the 1860s-1950s.

Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immens

There are two prevailing myths about Japanese society: first, that it has a successful elderly welfare system and second, that it has a successful criminal just

Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerg