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Oct 20, 2026
【#1409】Japan Should Urgently Enact Anti-Espionage Law
Takashi Arimoto ー TV footage showing that the Russian Federal Security Service detained a male correspondent at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk bureau of Japan’s Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper on suspicion of espionage and took him to Moscow laid bare the vulnerability of Japan as a sovereign nation. China, for its part, has detained .... <Read more>
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Oct 13, 2026
【#1408】Takaichi’s Diplomacy Derailed China’s Strategy to Isolate Japan
Masahiko Hosokawa ー On October 8, Hong Kong’s English-language newspaper South China Morning Post reported that U.S. President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Washington last month to lift export restrictions on rare earths and other items against Japan. Trump reportedly claimed that the .... <Read more>

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【#1407】Claims of North Korean Economic Recovery Are Contrary to Fact
Tsutomu Nishioka ー From September 21 to 25, I visited the United States as a member of a delegation comprising families of North Korean abduction victims, a support organization for the abductees, and a bipartisan parliamentary caucus on the issue. We held 13 meetings with senior U.S. government officials, members of both the

【#1406】Return Tax Revenue Growth to Private Sector
Hideo Tamura ー Japan’s National Diet kicked off an extraordinary autumn session on October 5, with deliberations set to begin on a bill to cut the consumption tax on food products. Coupled with the ongoing work of compiling next fiscal year’s budget, the Sanae Takaichi administration’s “responsible and proactive fiscal policy” is