【#1077】Kishida Should Exert Leadership in Cutting Consumption Tax
October 10, 2023 A parliamentary group advocating aggressive fiscal policy, which comprises young lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will soon propose a temporary consumption tax cu...
October 10, 2023 “I have squarely faced challenges one by one, made decisions, and taken actions in the past two years,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on October 3, a day before the ...
【#1075】U.S. Political Chaos Plunging Allies into Insecurity
October 10, 2023 The unprecedented chaos in the U.S. Congress is encouraging the dictatorships of Russia and China that dream of reviving an empire. The U.S. House of Representatives excluded aid ...
【#1074】Beware Potential Change in U.S. Policy on Ukraine
October 2, 2023 Just before fiscal 2023 ended at midnight on September 30, the U.S. Congress passed a stopgap budget through mid-November, which President Joe Biden immediately signed into law. Mo...
【#1073】Get Angry with Dysfunctional U.N. Security Council
September 25, 2023 Japan is the third largest contributor to the United Nations after the United States and China. Russia is not even among the Top 10 contributors. Nevertheless, the U.N. is compl...
【#1072】Welcoming Foreign Minister Kamikawa and Defense Minister Kihara
September 19, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s newly reshuffled cabinet has a lineup that lacks freshness due to the selection of many hopefuls on a “waiting list” for cabinet ministers recomme...
【#1071】Symposium Held in Seoul to Deny Coercion of Comfort Women
September 11, 2023 On September 5, scholars and activists from Japan and South Korea who reject the theory of the coercive recruitment of comfort women as sex slaves held a joint symposium in Seou...
【#1070】Draft Emergency Clauses to Amend Constitution at Autumn Diet Session
September 11, 2023 Since the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party two years ago, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has reiterated his pledge to amend the constitution during his...
September 11, 2023 Japan’s National Security Strategy, approved by the cabinet in December last year, can be regarded as an excellent one because it emphasizes the perspective of securing national...
【#1068】A Fear of Absorption May Be Behind North’s Reference to “ROK”
September 4, 2023 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea by its official name, the Republic of Korea, for the first time. North Korea regards the South as a colony of the United St...
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