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May 12, 2022
【#916】How to Counter North Korean Nuclear Intimidation: Part 2
Tsutomu Nishioka ー In this column on April 4, I wrote that nuclear intimidation against non-nuclear South Korea by senior North Korean officials including Kim Yo Jong, a sister of top leader Kim Jong Un and effective No. 2 of the North Korean leadership, created an unignorable crisis also for Japan, another non-nuclear country, and that .... ＜Read more＞
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May 12, 2022
【#915】Sanctions Without Defense Buildup Are Dangerous
Hiroshi Yuasa ー “Ukraine is tomorrow’s Asia,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at a press conference at the end of his recent six-nation tour, demonstrating Japan’s solidarity with Western countries that counter revisionist states of China and Russia. The remark represents an appropriate judgment, given that Ukraine is .... ＜Read more＞

“The Situation in Ukraine from the Polish Perspective”
- Mar 04, 2022 ー At the beginning of his speech, he introduced a news report that the Russian military invasion of Ukraine has reached the nuclear power plants. The geopolitical environment of Poland: Poland is a NATO member country bordered by Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Prime Minister Kishida must make a major change in Japan’s national defense policy
- Mar 04, 2022 ー We placed an advocacy ad demanding on Prime Minister Kishida to make a major change in Japan’s national defense policy in three major national dailies, Nikkei, Sankei and Yomiuri, on Friday, March 4.

An article written by Tomiyama was published in “Journal of Indian Ocean Studies”
- Aug 04, 2021 ー The Journal of Indian Ocean Studies published an article written by Yasushi Tomiyama, Research Fellow and Planning Committee Member of the JINF, in its May-August 2021 issue. Mr. Tomiyama argued that the quadrilateral security dialogue, or the Quad, among the four Indo-Pacific democracies --- Australia, India, Japan and the United States --- has been evolving into a security institution by holding its first-ever leaders’ summit online in March 2021. Whether the four countries will deepen military and defense cooperation in the years ahead might largely depend on China’s behaviors. However, it is almost impossible for the Quad to become a military alliance like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization not least […]

The Eighth Kokkiken Japan Study Award :Ceremony and commemorative lecture
- Jul 13, 2021 ー JINF (Japan Institute for National Fundamentals) has held the Eighth Kokkiken Japan Study Award ceremony and commemorative lecture at Iino Hall in Tokyo. Awardees as follows； ◆ Click here for details. Japan Study Special AwardLee Woo Young former Research committee member at the Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research 　 Achievement in translating the book titled “Decchiage no Choyoko Mondai (A Complete Fabrication: The Issue of Wartime Requisitioned Workers)” by Tsutomu Nishioka into Korean.

The 8th Kokkiken Japan Study Award
- Jul 02, 2021 ー JINF has decided the 8th Kokkiken Japan Study Award recpients

Prime Minister Kishida must make a major change in Japan’s national defense policy

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The 8th "Kokkiken Japan Study Award"

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【#914】Chance Has Come for Japan to Amend Constitution
Tadae Takubo ー Changes in the international situation are prompting the need for Japan to amend the constitution. The Ukraine war has led North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries to enhance defense capabilities. In particular, Germany that had tended to avoid military contribution has decided to raise defense spending

【#913】Japan Should Learn Lessons from Ukraine Tragedy
Yoshiko Sakurai ー German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reacted to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine responsively and boldly. As a nuclear power has threatened to use nuclear weapons in a manner to virtually destroy the Nuclear Nonproliferation regime, Germany and Europe as a whole have turned