2015, June Archives
【#309】Perceptions of China Changing in Western Hemisphere
June 22, 2015 At a U.S. National Defense University (NDU) Alumni Seminar in Colombia from 9 to 12 June, I was asked to deliver a speech on China's influences on the Western Hemisphere. Fore...
【#308】Wake up Democratic Party of Japan
June 15, 2015 In 2000, I dared to join the Democratic Party of Japan, then the largest opposition party in Japan, in a bid to develop a political group that could take government from the r...
【#307(Special)】 Does Consensus Call for Waiting for Being Killed?
June 8, 2015 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's attitude of paving the way for Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense is surely right. But some of his remarks can be taken as denyi...
【#306】Funada Should Resign from LDP Post
June 8, 2015 Surprisingly, a witness recommended by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party described Japan's exercise of rights to collective self-defense and the pending national security bil...
【#305】Underwhelming Speech by Japanese Defense Minister
June 1, 2015 At national defense leaders’ Shangri-La Dialogue conference on Asian security in Singapore on May 29-31, the United States and China confronted over China’s land reclamation at...
【#304(Special)】 Five Lies in China’s Defense White Paper
June 1, 2015 China released a new national defense white paper on May 26. It is titled "China's Military Strategy" compared with "China's National Defense" for the previous one published in...
【#303(Special)】 Criticizing Recent Book by Ambassador Muto
May 29, 2015 Masatoshi Muto, Japan's former ambassador to South Korea, has authored a book titled "Truth of Japan-South Korea Confrontation." It has attracted attention by denouncing South ...