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Oct 22, 2020
【#729】Dissolve SCJ to Normalize Japan’s Academia
Tsutomu Nishioka ー The raison d’etre of the Science Council of Japan has become a red-hot issue. A law to create the SCJ was enacted in 1948. Then, the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces viewed Japan as the enemy of world peace and aimed to transform Japan into a weak country that would never stand against the world. .... ＜Read more＞
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Oct 19, 2020
【#728】India will shape the Quad’s direction
Brahma Chellaney ー The Australia-India-Japan-U.S. “Quad” is evolving in response to China’s muscular policies and aggressive actions. The four leading powers of the Indo-Pacific are moving toward formalizing the Quad to help strengthen the region’s weak multilateral security architecture, as the recent meeting of their top .... ＜Read more＞

Appeal to Political and Business Leaders in Japan
- Aug 14, 2020 ー We placed an advocacy ad regarding Japanese political and business leaders and growing threats of china in three major national dailies, Nikkei, Sankei and Yomiuri, on Friday, August 14.

【#709】Japan Should Support Oppressed Ethnic Minorities in China
- Aug 11, 2020 ー What Japan should seek a three-quarter century after World War II is to break away from the Yalta system, a framework for postwar international order including the treatment of Japan based on a secret agreement reached between the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union at their conference in

【#708】Japan Ｍust Flex Its Foreign-Policy Muscle
- Aug 11, 2020 ー The international spotlight on Japan’s prolonged economic woes has helped obscure one of the most important but least-noticed developments — the political rise of the world’s third largest economy. By initiating national-security reforms and seeking a more active role in shaping the evolving balance of power in

【#707】Japan Needs to Become a Great Power Again: 75 Years After the War
- Aug 11, 2020 ー In 1853 Commodore Perry visited Japan with a complaint. Japan was not a great power which threatened the US Navy but as the ranges of sailing ships increased owing to technological advances, isolated Tokugawa Japan either refused assistance to shipwrecked vessels or sometimes killed the crews.

The Seventh Kokkiken Japan Study Award
- Jul 10, 2020 ー The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, JINF, established “Kokkiken Japan Study Award” in 2014, to encourage and honor outstanding works in the field of Japanese studies at home and abroad that contribute to the furthering of understanding of Japan in the areas of politics, national security, diplomacy, history, education and culture, among others. JINF has decided the Seventh Kokkiken Japan Study Award recpients follows; Japan Study Encouragement AwardMinggad Bulag Writer, Translator, Interpreter 　 Kusahara ni Homurareta Kioku “Nihon Tokumu” —Nihonjin ni yoru “Uchi Mongoru Kosaku” to Mongorujin ni yoru “Tainichi Kyoryoku” no Hikari to Kage English translation: [Japan’s “Tokumu” Special Duty Organs: The Past That was Buried in Steppe: The […]

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【#727】India favours gradual evolution of the Quad
Arvind Gupta ー The 2nd ministerial meeting of the Quad group of countries hosted by Japan in Tokyo on 6th October 2020 was significant. The Foreign Ministers of India, Australia and the US Secretary of State flew specially to Tokyo for a face-to-face meeting, ignoring the covid crisis. Unlike the earlier meeting which was held in

【#726】Science Council of Japan Is Symbol of Postwar Regime
Takashi Arimoto ー What the Science Council of Japan should be has been put into question since Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga refused to appoint six of 105 recommended SCJ member candidates. We must acknowledge that the SCJ represents a symbol of the postwar regime designed to confine Japan and its systems into a framework for