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2025.09.25 (Thu)

【#1289】LDP Leadership Candidates Should Discuss Constitutional Amendment

September 22, 2025 　 On September 18, the Japan Innovation Party, one of Japan’s main opposition parties, published a policy proposal titled “21st Century National Defense Vision and Constitutional ...

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2025.09.18 (Thu)

【#1288】LDP Leadership Candidates Must Present National Visions

September 16, 2025 　 The United States has abandoned its leadership in maintaining the international order under the Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy, while “rule by force” is a...

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2025.08.20 (Wed)

【#1277】How Long Can We Avoid Nuclear Debate?

August 18, 2025 　 Nuclear abolition is the ultimate goal and ideal of human beings. No matter how much we continue to advocate nuclear abolition, however, nuclear warheads are increasing in the real...

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2025.07.16 (Wed)

【#1272】Any Political Upheaval in China?

July 14, 2025 　 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s absence from the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7 has sparked a lot of speculation. As this marks the first time Xi has missed the BRICS summ...

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2025.07.10 (Thu)

【#1270】Amend Constitution to Overcome National Crisis

July 7, 2025 　 Japan is now, quite literally, facing a national crisis. As China steadily prepares for an invasion of Taiwan and the risk of a Taiwan-Japan contingency rises, the U.S. Trump administ...

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2025.07.02 (Wed)

【#1266】Japan Should Revise Outdated Strategy Documents Within This Year

June 30, 2025 　 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its summit on June 25 approved a goal of increasing defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in each member country by 2035. E...

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2025.06.12 (Thu)

【#1258】Protect Japan from Pearl Harbor-like Attack

June 9, 2025 　 On June 1, Ukraine carried out a historic surprise attack using small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, damaging a lot of Russian Air Force planes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze...

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2025.06.04 (Wed)

【#1257】Wake Up to China’s Enhancement of Invasion Capabilities

June 2, 2025 　 From May 25 to 29, several Chinese naval vessels, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, sailed southeast from the East China Sea to the Pacific Ocean through the waters between the...

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2025.06.04 (Wed)

【#1256】Japan Must Demonstrate Seriousness about Effective Control of Senkakus

June 2, 2025 　 For about 15 minutes from around 12:21 on May 3, a helicopter from a China Coast Guard ship in Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands violated Japan’s airspace above th...

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2025.03.25 (Tue)

【#1237】Japan Should Develop Taiwan Strategy Quickly

March 24, 2025 　 The U.S. national security strategy is undergoing a tectonic shift under the Trump administration. Washington has made conspicuous moves to withdraw from Europe, including beginnin...

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