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Aug 20, 2019
【#614】Constitution’s Article 9 Impedes Japan-U.S. Alliance
Tadae Takubo ー On the 74th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War, I feel that the world is entering a new phase as the international situation has been reversed since years just after the war. I want Japan as a whole to wake up as soon as possible. When the war ended, the U.S.-led allied forces devised systems to prevent Japan and Germany .... ＜Read more＞
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Aug 07, 2019
【#613(Special)】“Postwar Disease” behind Hagiuda Bashing
Yoshiko Sakurai ー On July 26, Koichi Hagiuda, executive acting secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, appeared on the online Genron TV over which I preside. On the July 30 issue of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, reporter Takahiro Okubo wrote that Hagiuda mentioned the replacement of Tadamori Oshima as .... ＜Read more＞

The Sixth Kokkiken Japan Study Award
- Jul 16, 2019 ー JINF (Japan Institute for National Fundamentals) has decided the Sixth Kokkiken Japan Study Awardees as follows；

Japan-U.S.-Taiwan Trilateral Dialogue
- Dec 21, 2018 ー The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF) organized a Japan-U.S.-Taiwan Trilateral Dialogue on 21 December with think-tank researchers from Taiwan and U.S.

“Forced labor” Is Misleading
- Nov 30, 2018 ー The Japan Times carried an editor’s note in its November 30th issue to inform readers of a change over terms used to refer to wartime Korean workers in Japan.

“U.S.-China Clash and Japan’s Preparedness” by JINF Symposium
- Nov 28, 2018 ー The annual 11th symposium for members of Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF), organized by JINF, was held on 23 November 2018 at the Hotel New Ohtani in Tokyo.

[Our Proposal] What is wrongly referred to as “requisitioned” and or “compulsorily recruited” laborers (from the Korean Peninsula in the wartime past) should be correctly called “wartime Korean workers”
- Nov 14, 2018 ー [Our Proposal] What is wrongly referred to as “requisitioned” and or “compulsorily recruited” laborers (from the Korean Peninsula in the wartime past) should be correctly called “wartime Korean workers” [An account in detail] The processes of Japan’s wartime labor mobilization on the Korean Peninsula during World War II were categorized into three types, depending on when the mobilization was implemented: recruitment by private-sector companies on their own; employment by private companies through the good offices of the government; and “requisition” through the application of theNational Requisition Ordinance, an imperial edict that was in effect nationwide in the closing phase of the war. Irrespective of these categories, Koreans were all employed […]

The Sixth "Kokkiken Japan Study Award"

What is wrongly referred to as “requisitioned” and or “compulsorily recruited” laborers (from the Korean Peninsula in the wartime past) should be correctly called “wartime Korean workers”

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【#612(Special)】Rebutting President Moon’s Criticism against Japan
Tsutomu Nishioka ー On August 2, when Japan decided to drop South Korea from a list of the countries subject to preferential trade treatments, South Korean President Moon Jae In blamed Japan for causing an “unusual diplomatic and economic situation” at the outset of an extraordinary cabinet meeting he convened. However, his argument

【#611】Is “Coexistence” Possible with a Hegemonic China?
Yasushi Tomiyama ー Two former senior U.S. government officials, who are likely to lead a foreign policy and national security team if the Democratic Party wins back the White House in the 2020 presidential election, have contributed a joint article to the September/October issue of the U.S. foreign policy magazine Foreign Affairs, calling