Tsutomu Nishioka's Archives
May 8, 2023 In early May, a delegation from the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, its supporting organization and a supra-partisan parliamentary league on the abduct...
【#1036】Japan Should Learn from S. Korean President’s National Defense Determination
May 1, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited the United States and joined U.S. President Joe Biden to release a Washington Declaration on April 26 advocating strengthened U.S. extended...
April 10, 2023 Lawmakers from the Democratic Party of Korea, a South Korean leftist opposition party, visited Japan on April 6 through 8 to demonstrate their objection to the planned release of tr...
【#1027】Commendable Avoidance of Making New Apology to South Korea
March 20, 2023 When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited Japan last week, I was in South Korea, where media reported the president as having made a major concession over the issue of warti...
【#1021】Solution Ignoring Historical Truth Won’t Last Long
March 8, 2023 A solution to the issue of wartime Korean workers in Japan, announced by South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol government on March 6, can be regarded as a temporary measure to avoid the worst ...
March 6, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol positioned Japan as a “partner” in his address at a ceremony on March 1 to commemorate the March 1 Independence Movement against Japanese rule. B...
【#1017】Japan Should Look at Looming North Korean Nuclear Threats
February 27, 2023 Military tensions over nuclear weapons are rapidly growing on the Korean Peninsula, although such tensions are scarcely reported in Japan. As North Korea continues military drill...
【#998】Looming Local Clash and Famine on Korean Peninsula
January 10, 2023 Military tensions are rising again on the Korean Peninsula. Amid tensions in 2017, then U.S. President Donald Trump exerted military pressure on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ...
【#987】Make No Easy Concession over Wartime Korean Workers in Japan
November 21, 2022 On November 13, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held his first official meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Phnom Penh. South Korean government officials s...
【#980】Unification Church Issue as Seen by a Christian
October 31, 2022 On a personal note, I am a Christian. Among Christian denominations, I belong to an evangelical Protestant believing that authentic words of Gods are written in the New and Old Te...