【#803】Japan Following Suit of Neville Chamberlain
June 21, 2021 Japanese lawmakers gave up on adopting a resolution condemning China for human rights abuse at this year’s ordinary session of the parliament called National Diet that ended last wee...
【#802】Epoch-making Ruling on Wartime Korean Workers in Japan
June 14, 2021 On June 7, the Seoul Central District Court made a just ruling on wartime Korean workers in Japan. It turned down a lawsuit in which 85 plaintiffs including former such workers sough...
【#801】Far Weaker Japan-U.S. Ties than U.K.-U.S. Relationship
June 14, 2021 Amid what U.S. President Joe Biden terms a confrontation between democracies and autocracies, the democratic camp has finally begun to take shape under the U.S. leadership after rema...
【#800】Thoroughgoing Infection Control to Make Olympics Successful
June 7, 2021 One month and a half ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, whether human lives or Olympics are more important has become a red-hot issue at the National Diet parliament and in the media world....
【#799】British Pacific Strategy Frustrates China
June 7, 2021 I would like to welcome Britain’s decision to advance into the Indo-Pacific region ahead of other European countries. On June 2, the 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreem...
【#798】Supporting Tokyo Olympics
May 31, 2021 Calls are growing for cancelling the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics for four major reasons: (1) novel coronavirus infections may expand with the visit of many foreign athletes and oth...
【#797】Japan’s Power Plant Production Capacity in Existential Crisis
May 24, 2021 The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals released policy proposals titled “The Answer to Decarbonization Is Nuclear Power” on April 12 calling for constructing 24 new and additio...
【#796】S. Korea under Moon Rejects Value-oriented Diplomacy
May 24, 2021 South Korea under President Moon Jae In has rejected value-oriented diplomacy. A U.S.-South Korea summit on May 21 led me to conclude so. Refraining from criticizing China by name ...
【#795】U.S. Uniqlo Case Represents Warning to Japan’s Human Rights Policy
May 24, 2021 On May 10, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it blocked Fast Retailing Co.’s Uniqlo brand shirts on concerns they violated a ban on cotton products produced in China’s Xinji...
【#794】Japan Should Revise Immigration Control Act
May 19, 2021 In the previous “Speaking Out” column dated May 17, I pointed out that discussions on a revision to Japan’s Immigration Control Act over the treatment of those avoiding deportation (f...
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