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Tsutomu Nishioka's Archives

2022.01.19 (Wed)

【#875】Japan Should Make Fact-based Rebuttal to S. Korea over Sado Goldmines

January 17, 2022 　 On December 28 last year, the Council for Cultural Affairs, an advisory panel to the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, selected a goldmine site on the island of Sado, Niigata ...

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2021.12.23 (Thu)

【#864】On Passing Away of Shigeo Iizuka, Leader of Abductees’ Families

December 20, 2021 　 On December 18, Shigeo Iizuka, a former representative of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnaped by North Korea, died at the age of 83. He was the eldest brother of ...

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2021.12.06 (Mon)

【#860】Magazine Deleted Article Claiming Comfort Women as Not Sex Slaves

December 2, 2021 　 An online magazine on international affairs based in the United States carried a South Korean scholar’s contribution claiming wartime comfort women as not sex slaves but quickly d...

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2021.12.01 (Wed)

【#858】On Death of Former S. Korean President Chun Doo Hwan

November 29, 2021 　 Former South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan died at the age of 90. The incumbent Moon Jae In administration did not hold a state funeral for Chun or provide government support fo...

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2021.11.18 (Thu)

【#852】Two Requests Regarding Kishida’s Human Rights Diplomacy

November 15, 2021 　 Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has appointed former Defense Minister Gen Nakatani as assistant to the prime minister in charge of human rights issues. I would like to appre...

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2021.11.11 (Thu)

【#848】S. Korea Far from Restoring Rule of Law Under Next President

November 8, 2021 　 Candidates have been selected for the South Korean presidential election to be held in March 2022. The largest conservative opposition People Power Party has picked former Prosecu...

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2021.06.17 (Thu)

【#802】Epoch-making Ruling on Wartime Korean Workers in Japan

June 14, 2021 　 On June 7, the Seoul Central District Court made a just ruling on wartime Korean workers in Japan. It turned down a lawsuit in which 85 plaintiffs including former such workers sough...

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2021.05.27 (Thu)

【#796】S. Korea under Moon Rejects Value-oriented Diplomacy

May 24, 2021 　 South Korea under President Moon Jae In has rejected value-oriented diplomacy. A U.S.-South Korea summit on May 21 led me to conclude so. Refraining from criticizing China by name ...

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2021.05.24 (Mon)

【#794】Japan Should Revise Immigration Control Act

May 19, 2021 　 In the previous “Speaking Out” column dated May 17, I pointed out that discussions on a revision to Japan’s Immigration Control Act over the treatment of those avoiding deportation (f...

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2021.05.20 (Thu)

【#793】Pay Attention to National Interests in Revising Immigration Act

May 17, 2021 　 At Japan’s parliament, ruling and opposition parties have been fiercely confronting with each other on a revision to the Immigration Control Act that sets rules on the treatment of fo...

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