【#1132】Don’t Use a Tiny Scapegoat to End Renewable Energy Scandal
April 1, 2024 While solar and wind power generation has been touted as a safe, clean renewable energy alternative to nuclear power, the deficiency of renewable energy has been recognized worldwide...
【#1131】BOJ Should Maintain Strong Commitment to Monetary Easing
March 25, 2024 The Bank of Japan at its monetary policy meeting on March 19 decided to raise the uncollateralized overnight call rate (an interest rate on overnight interbank loans), which serves ...
【#1130】No Reelection without Constitutional Amendment
March 25, 2024 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has repeatedly said that he will pursue constitutional amendment before his term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ends in Se...
March 18, 2024 The Bank of Japan seems highly inclined to end its negative interest rate policy at its monetary policy meeting on March 18 and 19. As the average wage increase through spring labor...
【#1128】Is Kishida Likely to Visit North Korea?
March 11, 2024 In this column on February 19, I wrote, “(Japanese Prime Minister Fumio) Kishida may visit North Korea soon.” My comment was in reaction to a statement by North Korea’s de facto No....
【#1127】Be Alert to China’s Overseas Expansion Spurred by Economic Decline
March 11, 2024 At China’s National People’s Congress (a pseudo-parliament led by the Communist Party) that ended on March 11, the Xi Jinping government couldn’t present any effective policy to dea...
【#1126】Hoping for Early U.S. Additional Support for Ukraine
March 11, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address on March 7 warned that freedom and democracy are “under attack both at home and abroad at the very same time,” making a st...
【#1125】Japan Should Not Shy Away from Nuclear Discussion
March 11, 2024 Following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement that he would make nuclear weapons “combat-ready” shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, BBC reported that this raised th...
【#1124】Kishida Should Complete Dissolution of LDP Factions
March 4, 2024 The governance of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been dysfunctional. In order to make a breakthrough in a dispute between ruling and opposition parties over who to at...
【#1123】Japan Should Not Cap 5-year Defense Spending at 43 Trillion Yen
March 4, 2024 The yen’s depreciation and price hikes have boosted defense equipment procurement cost, endangering Japan’s planned “fundamental reinforcement of defense capabilities.” “Given ex...
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Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
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Yasushi Tomiyama
Takashi Arimoto
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Masahiko Hosokawa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Yujiro Oiwa
Shiro Takahashi
Hironobu Ishikawa
Kiyofumi Iwata
Akira Momochi
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Akio Yaita
Yoshihiko Yamada
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Etsuro Honda
Koichi Endo
Seiji Kurosawa
Brahma Chellaney
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Michio Ezaki
Sumihiko Kawamura
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
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Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Taro Yayama
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Koji Okamoto
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Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Koko Kato
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Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
Hirotaka Watanabe
Akinaka Senzaki
Kevin Maher
Yang Yi
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Hiroshi Ito
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Satoshi Hirano
Lee Woo Young
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
Hong Hyung
Andrii Gurenko
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Katsutoshi Kawano
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
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