Japan’s Lost Decades: A Call for Fundamental Statecraft Reform

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan said during the State visit to the UK by him and Her Majesty the Empress in 2024: the UK and Japan are “friends like no other”. They both studied at Oxford.

Japan adopted the Westminster political system and the modern British social and industrial system. But after the post-war period of economic growth, Japan lost three decades of economic might.

Past the 11th Hour - How Britain Must Transform as the Global Security Order Crumbles

The UK faces the gravest security environment since the Second World War, and yet its institutions remain unable to fully adapt to the seriousness of the challenge. It is clear that we are no longer in a time of peace, but the political incentives to adequately project deterrence to our adversaries, and prepare the nation for the realities of what could come, are failing to drive transformative change.
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