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Aug 13, 2018
【#535】Changes Signaled in Xi Jinping Regime
Akio Yaita ー Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Communist Party top leaders started an important meeting with influential party elders including former Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao in early August at the summer resort of Beidaihe, Hebei, northeastern China. The meeting was expected to last until .... ＜Read more＞
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Aug 09, 2018
【#534(Special)】Oppose a Japan-N. Korea Joint Probe into Abduction
Tsutomu Nishioka ー Even since North Korea’s abduction of Japanese citizens was taken up at the U.S.-North Korea summit in June, North Korea’s official media have continued to assert the abduction issue as having been resolved. However, the careful interpretation of such assertions shows North Korea’s real intention to negotiate .... ＜Read more＞

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.

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.

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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【#533】Famed U.S. Scholar Gives up on Maintaining International Order
Tadae Takubo ー Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard University, is known as the proponent of the “Thucydides Trap” theory likening a confrontation between hegemonistic countries to the rivalry between Sparta and Athens in ancient Greece. In his contribution to the July-August issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, titled “the

【#532(Special)】Objection to Proposal for Japan and U.S. to Join AIIB
Yasushi Tomiyama ー In the present world, a camp of countries that share values emphasizing freedom, democracy, human rights, market economy and rule-based international order is confronting with another camp of authoritarian countries that have no such values. Japan, the United States, Australia and India form the core of the former