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Digital Japan Lab is a research group that is concerned with the digital transformation of Japanese politics and society.

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[Blog] Unveiling the Transnational and Digital Metapolitics of the New Right: Insights from EAJS Conference

Unveiling the Transnational and Digital Metapolitics of the New Right: Insights from EAJS ConferenceOur research group presented the latest findings of the ongoing research at the EAJS conference held at Ghent University from August 17 to 20, 2023. The findings were presented at the panel titled “The transnational and digital metapolitics of the New Right”. […]

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[Article] The Far Right and the Dissemination of COVID-19-Related Disinformation and Conspiracy Narratives in Japan: the Metapolitics of Kobayashi Yoshinori

Abstract: The initial lack of scientific consensus regarding COVID-19 and public controversies concerning implemented countermeasures have created fertile soil for the circulation of disinformation and conspiracy narratives. Applying a mixed-methods discourse analysis, we examine the use of typical rhetorical strategies and metaphors of conspiracy narratives and disinformation, and we study overlaps with discursive strategies of the […]

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