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Jul 18, 2018
【#529】Shock to NATO Likely to Spill over to Japan
Tadae Takubo ー Hastings Ismay, chief military assistant to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II and the first secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made a famous remark that NATO was created “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” The remark .... ＜Read more＞
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Jul 12, 2018
【#528(Special)】U.S. Should Resume Military Drills with S. Korea
Tsutomu Nishioka ー U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Pyongyang without any achievement while being criticized as a “gangster.” U.S. President Donald Trump now must threaten to retract “security guarantees” he committed to provide at his meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore last month. A .... ＜Read more＞

The Fifth Kokkiken Japan Study Award
- Jul 10, 2018 ー JINF (Japan Institute for National Fundamentals) has decided the Fifth Kokkiken Japan Study Awardees as follows:

A comment by Fumio Ota was quoted in the WSJ and his article was published in Indian journal.
- Jun 28, 2018 ー A comment regarding President Trump foreign policy by Dr. Ota, a member of planning committee and senior fellow of JINF, was quoted in the article on the Wall Street Journal, 13th June. To read the article on the PDF file, Click here. Also, the article written by Dr. Ota was published in “Indian Military Review Volume 9”, June 2018. To read the full article on the PDF file, click here.

JINF 10th Anniversary Symposium　“New Global Challenges and Japan”
- May 29, 2018 ー 　　　　　The 10th anniversary symposium for Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF) was held on 17 May 2018 at the IINO Hall in Tokyo Uchisaiwai-cho. The symposium titled “New Global Challenges and Japan” invited French historian and demographer Emmanuel Todd as a keynote speaker. Todd also had a discussion with JINF President Yoshiko Sakurai and Vice President Tadae Takubo after his keynote speech on the stage. And LDP President Shinzo Abe celebrated the JINF 10th anniversary in the reception held after the symposium. 　　　　　A detailed report will be made later.

“Holding International Conference with VIF Institute of India”
- Mar 20, 2018 ー On 7th March, Wednesday, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF) invited four researchers, Dr. Gupta, Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a think tank in India, and held an international conference between Japan and India.

“North Korea’s Crisis, Japan Should Wake Up” by JINF Symposium
- Nov 24, 2017 ー The annual 10th symposium for members of Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF), organized by JINF, was held on 23 November 2017 at the Hotel New Ohtani in Tokyo. The symposium title was “North Korea’s Crisis, Japan Should Wake Up ”, and its panelists were Mr. Gen Nakatani, a representative, Dr. Tadae Takubo, vice president of JINF and Prof. Tsutomu Nishioka, a planning member of JINF, and Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, president of JINF presided the symposium.

The Fifth "Kokkiken Japan Study Award"

The Government should establish an Office of International Public Diplomacy responsible for fact-based perception of history

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【#527】Trade War Has Originated from China’s Unfair Practices
Yujiro Oiwa ー The U.S. Trump administration invoked punitive tariffs on Chinese products for the reason of China’s infringement on U.S. intellectual property rights on July 6 as earlier planned. On the same day, China imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products. The world thus plunged into an abnormal situation where the world’s

【#526(Special)】Award Winning Book Befits 150th Anniversary of Meiji Restoration
Hironobu Ishikawa ー On July 4, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals honored Chuo University Professor Robert Morton with the fifth Japan Study Award and University of East Asia Professor Choe Kilsung with the Japan Study Special Award.Morton delivered a special speech on his book titled “A. B. Mitford and the