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Japan should set a more ambitious 2030 emissions reduction target aligned with a 1.5°C pathway, not only its current nationally determined contribution.

Japan's island geography gives it substantial renewable energy potential — tidal, wave, and geothermal — that is being underexploited.

The Fukushima disaster should not prevent a rational, evidence-based reassessment of nuclear power's role in Japan's energy mix.

Japan's 2050 carbon neutrality target requires energy policies far more ambitious than those currently in place.

Japan should invest in offshore wind at a scale comparable to its investment in automotive manufacturing.

Japan's continued construction and planning of new coal power plants is incompatible with its 2050 carbon neutrality commitment.

Japan was right to restart nuclear power plants as part of its decarbonisation strategy — the climate case outweighs the safety concerns.

All state-funded schools should be required to offer the same curriculum regardless of religious ethos.

Third-level fees should be abolished and replaced with a graduate contribution collected through the tax system.

Religious bodies should have no role in determining admissions criteria for state-funded schools.

Irish schools should teach personal finance, civic education, and media literacy as compulsory core subjects.

Apprenticeships and further education courses should be funded and socially respected at the same level as academic degrees.

Teacher pay in Ireland is too low relative to other graduate professions and must rise to attract and retain talent.

The CAO points race places harmful levels of pressure on teenagers and should be fundamentally reformed.

Ireland should adopt an active anti-racism strategy with funded enforcement mechanisms and measurable targets.

Anti-immigration rhetoric in Irish political discourse poses a serious risk to social cohesion.

Ireland should make it substantially easier for the Irish diaspora to return and contribute to the economy.

Homelessness in Ireland is a political and policy failure, not an inevitable outcome of market conditions.

The Irish state has a duty to formally acknowledge and pay reparations to survivors of institutional abuse.

Ireland's economic success depends substantially on continued immigration and the state should make this case publicly.