2016, March Archives
【#365】Listen to “Sound” Portion of Trump’s Arguments
March 28, 2016 To avoid any misunderstanding, I must say first that Donald Trump, front-runner for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination, is not credible at all as a politician. His fre...
【#364】Government Should Take Accountability for Fiscal Risks
March 22, 2016 The Japanese government in mid-March started a series of “international financial and economic analysis meetings” where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and economic ministers exchang...
【#363】Two Otsu Incidents
March 14, 2016 On March 9, Otsu District Court Presiding Judge Yoshihiko Yamamoto ordered the suspension of the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama Nuclear Power Sta...
【#362】Japan as Cornerstone for Indo-Pacific Security
March 7, 2016 Following my U.S. visit in late January, I participated in an international conference in Britain late February. Through these visits, I felt the tidal shift of international co...
【#361】Japanese Diet Indifferent to Chinese Military Movement
February 29, 2016 U.S. or Chinese military movements in the South and East China Seas have been reported almost every day on newspapers and magazines in or out of Japan, and on the Internet. ...