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Jul 27, 2017
【#455】Stop TV Fascism
Eitaro Ogawa ー Television stations are getting out of control.For six months, media have continued to report on “scandals” involving school entities Moritomo Gakuen and the Kake Educational Institution. (Moritomo Gaukuen with links to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife has bought a government land at a heavily discounted .... ＜Read more＞
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Jul 20, 2017
【#454】Japanese and U.S. Lawmakers’ Different Responses to Liu’s Death
Yoichi Shimada ー Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump made similar responses to the July 13 death of Chinese democratic activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Without sending any strong oral message, they issued innocuous comments deploring the death. However, there was a big .... ＜Read more＞

The Fourth Kokkiken Japan Study Award
- Jun 29, 2017 ー JINF(Japan Institute for National Fundamentals) has decided the Fourth Kokkiken Japan Study Awardees. The Japan Study Award : June Teufel Dreyer,Professor at the University of Miami The Japan Study Special Award : Henry Scott Stokes,Former NY Times Tokyo Bureau Chief Click here for Details

“38 North; Watching the Korean Peninsula from US”
- Jun 02, 2017 ー Ms. Jenny Town, the assistant director of the US-Korea Institute (USKI) at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), exchanged opinions with planning committee members and others including the JINF President Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai on June 1st.

Japan-India Bilateral Dialogue and Japan-India-U.S. Trilateral Dialogue
- May 23, 2017 ー 　　　　The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) of India organized a Japan-India bilateral dialogue on February 16, 2017, and a Japan-India-U.S. trilateral dialogue on February 17, with think-tank researchers and former senior government and military officials taking part. Four members of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF) and four members of the U.S.-based Hudson Institute were invited to visit New Delhi to participate in the dialogues. JINF was represented by Yasushi Tomiyama, a JINF Planning Committee member, who headed the JINF team; Seiji Kurosawa, secretary general of JINF, Hiroshi Yuasa, a JINF Planning Committee member; and Yoichi Shimada, a JINF Planning Committee member. Two of them attended the Bilateral Dialogue on […]

“Japan Should Urge for South-West Defense under Trump Era”
- Mar 29, 2017 ー A professor emeritus, James Auer, of Vanderbilt University, exchanged opinions with planning committee member and others including the JINF President Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai on March 10. The topic he picked up from popularity of the President Trump in the

“Trump Administration and Japan‘s Decision” by JINF Symposium
- Nov 24, 2016 ー The annual 9th symposium for members of Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF), organized by JINF, was held on 23 November 2016 at the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo.

The Fourth "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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【#453(Special)】Relying on China over N. Korea Reaching a Limit
Yasushi Tomiyama ー The U.S. and Chinese presidents met in Hamburg, Germany, on July 8. While U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized the need to respond to North Korea’s growing threat of nuclear and missile development indicated by the recent test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, Chinese President Xi Jinping renewed his

【#452】Japan Should Contribute to FONOP — A Year after Arbitral Ruling
Seiji Kurosawa ー July 12 marks the first anniversary of an arbitral ruling on China’s construction of artificial islands and other activities in the South China Sea. The ruling on the petition filed by the Philippines denied China’s claim almost completely and binds the parties to the dispute. However, China brushed off the