Kiyofumi Iwata's Archives
【#1307】Hopes and Challenges for New LDP-led Coalition
November 4, 2025 The establishment of a coalition government between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party provides a historic opportunity to restore Japan under conservative...
【#1301】Pursue “Semiconductor Alliance” to Enhance Deterrence
October 20, 2025 It has long been said that “semiconductors are the oil of the 21st century.” It is clear that modern society cannot function without semiconductors, and any disruption in their su...
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 ...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
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...
【#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...
【#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...


