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Sep 24, 2020
【#721(Special)】Suga Should Not Invite Xi as State Guest
Hiroshi Yuasa ー While new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has many things to do, what he should not do is to invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Japan as a state guest. Annoyed with a looming U.S.-led network to isolate China, Beijing is wooing naive U.S. allies in a bid to separate them from the United States. While .... ＜Read more＞
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Sep 24, 2020
【#720】New Prime Minister Suga Lacks National Vision
Tadae Takubo ー New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has got a good start as his commonplace words of “working for the people” and “implementing policies speedily” have become popular, even with Suga-related products being launched. Frankly, however, I am concerned that Suga, as well as Shigeru Ishiba and Fumio Kishida .... ＜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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The Seventh "Kokkiken Japan Study Award"

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【#719(Special)】China Is a National Security Threat
Kiyofumi Iwata ー While expanding its hegemony under the slogan of “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” China has repeated joint naval and air force exercises in the western Pacific in an attempt to expel U.S. forces from the region in the future. As of now, we cannot but to depend on U.S. nuclear deterrent, mostly strategic nuclear

【#718】Here Emerged Anti-Nuke, Pro-Communist Opposition Party
Shohei Umezawa ー In a major realignment of Japan’s opposition camp, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) has joined with most of National Democratic Party (NDP) members and independent lawmakers into a large opposition party that retains the name of CDPJ. The new party is nothing more than a rehash of the