Policy Analysis Report | konrad.jp Policy Analysis Division April 2026 Executive Summary This paper analyzes the persistent deadlock over the comfort women issue between Japan and Korea through a structural lens, moving beyond the common but superficial explanation of “differing historical perceptions.” The analytical framework draws on the concept of anti-intellectualism as theorized by American…
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Russia’s Weaponization of the Ainu Question: A Geopolitical Fraud Dressed as Indigenous Rights
POLICY ANALYSIS REPORT konrad.jp | East Asian Geopolitics & Policy Analysis April 2026 Executive Summary Russia has increasingly invoked the Ainu people of Hokkaido as a geopolitical instrument to delegitimize Japanese sovereignty over northern territories. This claim is built on a foundation of historical contradictions so severe that it collapses under minimal scrutiny. This report…