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Veganism in Japan: How ‘soft’ activism is changing minds in a meat-eating nation

  • Ruby Ramsden,

Veganism in Japan is not widely accepted, but ‘loose veganism’ is growing.

Radical within limits: Women’s movements, civil society, and the political field in Bangladesh

  • Associate Professor Seuty Sabur,

Women’s groups are sometimes blamed for a lack of gender equality rather than those with power such as the state.

What an Australian-based civil society group is learning with Fukushima children amid nuclear growth in Asia

  • Akina Mikami,

For the children of Fukushima, the consequences of the nuclear accident are part of everyday life with no end in sight.

Evolutionary Governance in China: State–Society Relations under Authoritarianism. Edited by Szu-chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai, and Chun-chih Chang

  • Professor Ming-sho Ho,

Social scientists studying China are developing new theories about how the ruling elites maintain power.

Erosion of democracy? The case of Niseko, Japan

  • Kiyomi Misaki,

Top-down and centralised regional policy has undermined participation and responsibility at the grassroots level.