Japan’s gender equality ranking fell to 125th out of 146 countries in 2023, lagging severely behind other G7 countries. Yet in the same year, the Japanese government set a target of women occupying 30% of executive roles by 2030, and passed their first anti-discrimination law…

Join us in a screening & discussion of Abortion and Women's Rights: 1970, a documentary about the struggle for abortion rights and stories about women obtaining illegal abortions before Roe. Joined by filmmaker Mary Summers, catered dinner provided.

In the decade since becoming the UN’s first Asian official partner for refugee resettlement, Japan’s refugee record has been dismally small – only 1% percent of applicants were granted refugee status in 2021. While Japan does provide short-term residency to certain groups, such…

A discussion between Edward Maibach (George Mason University) and Andrew Hoffman (University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine). On January 18, we invite you to an event featuring distinguished University Professor Edward Maibach, Director of the Center for Climate…

The invasion of Ukraine has been a dramatic escalation of the authoritarian turn in postcommunist Russia. In this conversation, two leading scholars of contemporary Russia, Ilya Budraitskis (visiting researcher, University of California Berkeley) and Ilya Matveev (visiting…