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2024/25 Arthur Stockwin Prize announced!

11 December 2025
Jiaan Yang has won the Arthur Stockwin Prize for her MSc dissertation, 'Transactional Sex Without Men: Women's Concerns, Intimacies and Distress in Japan'.

Putin's latest warning to Ukraine shows how unlikely a peace deal is

08 December 2025
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Yosuke Buchmeier publishes book review of Igor Prusa's 'Scandal in Japan'

04 December 2025
A new book review by Yosuke Buchmeier is now available open access online.
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Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil

02 December 2025
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New article: 'Violence Is the Heart of Brazilian Politics'

26 November 2025
Writing for Foreign Policy, Brazilian Studies Programme coordinator Felipe Krause argues that Brazil's "war on drugs" has evolved into a... (more)
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MSc 2021-22 alumnus Muhammed Alakitan publishes article

21 November 2025
Redefining Social Media Influencership Through Followership Building - Platforms & Society
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Historian Jessica A. Fernandez de Lara Harada contributes to landmark BBC Arts documentary series 'Civilisations: Rise and Fall'.

10 November 2025
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Professor Hugh Whittaker's recent book 'Building a New Economy: Japan's Digital and Green Transformation' published in Japanese

05 November 2025
Professor Hugh Whittaker's recent book 'Building a New Economy: Japan's Digital and Green Transformation' published in Japanese
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Why Putin's Energy Weapon Failed

03 November 2025
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Professor Kristi Govella publishes new article "Undersea Cables and the Extension of Empire: The Rise of Britain, Japan, and the United States and the Competition to Connect Hawai'i"

03 November 2025
The article examines the history of undersea cables from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. How did geopolitics affect cable construction historically? What parallels exist in the present day?