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Taurai Chinyamakobvu (Yale Mandela Washington Fellow ’14), Founding Chairman of Zimbabwe’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange

Eric WallachJuly 22, 2019July 23, 2019

“Cryptocurrencies have grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade since they came into being. They started from the periphery, but are now dominating debate at both policy and regulatory levels– something that was unthinkable five years ago”

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Animating Alternatives

Ahmed ElbenniMarch 9, 2018November 28, 2024

How anime conquered—and was conquered by—the world

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Resilience Recognized: San Francisco Honors World War II’s “Comfort Women”

Sammy WestfallFebruary 14, 2018February 17, 2018

“To me, the name of the country that perpetrated the sex slavery is almost irrelevant.”

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Facing Down from Opposite Sides: Japanese and South Korean Leadership on North Korea

Kate KushnerOctober 9, 2017

Japanese Prime Minister Abe and President Moon of South Korea are taking increasingly different approaches to North Korea.

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Love in the Time of VHS: Making Sense of Vaporwave

Stefan ColtonApril 15, 2017November 28, 2024

What can the sound and politics of an internet microgenre tell us about our relationship with artificial consumer worlds?

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Troubled Waters: The Struggle to Regulate Japanese Whaling

Adrianne OwingsMarch 9, 2017

“Results have been mixed.”

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Japan’s Demographic Conundrum: Echoes from an Aging Nation

Tyler SapsfordMarch 8, 2017March 9, 2017

Simply put, Japan faces a dire shortage of kids and millennials, and the country is already feeling the socioeconomic consequences.

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When Pop Music Goes Nuclear: The Explosive Politics of K-Pop in Asia

Kushal DevNovember 17, 2016November 28, 2024

The influence of K-Pop extends from millions of fans to international relations between East Asian nations.

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