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Jun 20, 2017
【#445】A Challenge against Distorted Media in Okinawa
Yoshiko Sakurai ー For a long time, Okinawa’s journalism has been distorted by two leading local dailies — The Ryukyu Shimpo and The Okinawa Times. On April 1, the Yaeyama Nippo expanded into main Okinawa Island where the two leading newspapers that should be described as leaders of biased journalism capture 95% of .... ＜Read more＞
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Jun 14, 2017
【#444】U.S Alert to China’s Space Program and Maritime Militia
Fumio Ota ー On June 6, the U.S. Defense Department published an annual report on “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2017.” Many foreign media took up China’s space development to which the Pentagon report paid attention. Combined with “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. .... ＜Read more＞

“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 New US President and His Policy
- Nov 21, 2016 ー On November 18, 2016, Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, President of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF) and Planning Committee Member, held the JINF weekly Friday conference, then Dr. James E. Auer, the Director of the Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation at Vanderbilt University, gave us a briefing as a guest speaker and discussed with us about the new US President and his policy still difficult to predict.

The Third "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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【#443】Mattis’s Uncompromising Attitude towards China
Yasushi Tomiyama ー A speech by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis at the Asia Security Summit (the Shangri-La Dialogue) in Singapore on June 3 was significant in that it declared the Trump administration, while requesting China’s cooperation in blocking North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and missiles, would not yield American basic positionto China on other

【#442】Rescue Japanese Citizens Detained in China
Akio Yaita ー Six Japanese men, including employees of a geological survey company in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo who visited China in March for spa prospecting and other geological surveys, have been detained by Chinese security authorities for spying and other charges, bringing to 11 the total number of Japanese citizens detained in China for such charges as