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Sep 14, 2017
【#467(Special)】U.N. Sanctions to Deprive Kim of Foreign Currencies
Tsutomu Nishioka ー On September 11, the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution on sanctions on North Korea only a week after Pyongyang conducted its sixth nuclear explosion test. The unusually quick adoption came only less than one month after the UNSC voted for the previous sanctions resolution on August 5. .... ＜Read more＞
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Sep 12, 2017
【#466】News Media Distorting School Textbook Issue
Nobukatsu Fujioka ー On September 6, Japan’s public broadcasting corporation NHK took up the school textbook issue in its television program named “Closeup Gendai+.” The program reported that as Nada Junior High School, one of elite private schools in western Japan, adopted a textbook authored by some of classroom teachers and publi .... ＜Read more＞

“China’s Proliferation Network Helps North Korea, Pakistan and Iran Becomes Nuclear Missile Powers”
- Jul 28, 2017 ー 　Mr. Richard D. Fisher Jr.　　 　　　　　On July 25 2017, Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF) held the planning committee, when Mr. R. D. Fisher, Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center, gave a briefing as a guest speaker and discussed with committee members about the issue that China’s Proliferation Network helps North Korea, Pakistan and Iran to become Nuclear Missile Powers. Mr. Fisher is the author of "China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach" (Praeger, 2008). 　　　　　He explained at first the actual situation which China’s military technology has spread out and linked with some states like North Korea, Pakistan, or Iran. His idea was based on the picture […]

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

The Fourth "Kokkiken Japan Study Award"

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【#465(Special)】N. Korean Nuclear Crisis Reaching Crucial Stage
Tsutomu Nishioka ー On September 3, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear explosion test. On the previous day, I met with an informant with connections to the inside of North Korea in Seoul who said to me as follows:“Kim Jong Un instructed the Korean People’s Army in July or August to exert maximum pressure on the United

【#464】Budget Request Indicates Low Defense Consciousness
Fumio Ota ー Japan’s defense budget request for fiscal 2018 hit a record 5.25 trillion yen. However, the past trend in a Ministry of Defense budget request line graph shows that the request represents just a return to the fiscal 2002 budget level after a slow increase from fiscal 2013 following a 10-year consecutive fall from fiscal 2003 to