Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

“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 […]

There Can Never Be Any Room for Japan to Stay Silent in Face of China’s Human Rights Abuses
- Oct 23, 2018 ー The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals placed an advocacy ad on the issue of China’s human rights abuses of Xinjiang Uyghur in two Japanese national dailies, Yomiuri Shimbun and Sankei Shimbun, on the October 23rd edition. The following is a translation from the Japanese advocacy ad. There Can Never Be Any Room for Japan to Stay Silent in Face of China’s Human Rights Abuses 　Aren’t the Japanese government, and the Diet, or the parliament, grossly slow in action in a moment of crisis of global significance? 　U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech, the most scathing and blistering ever to have been made by him, on the problem of […]

Article by Yasushi Tomiyama was Published in VIF’s New Journal
- Aug 02, 2018 ー An analytical article written by Yasushi Tomiyama, a Planning Committee member and a senior fellow of the JINF, was published on August 1 in the inaugural issue of the National Security, a new, policy-oriented and academic journal of the Vivekananda International Foundation, an Indian think tank based in New Delhi. Click here to read the article, “Quad” from the Japanese Perspective, online.