Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

2018.04.19 (Thu)

【#508】Free World Facing Dangerous World

April 16, 2018 　　　　　The latest military strike by the United States, Britain and France on Syria may have indicated that the United States, though having been tired of engagement in world affairs,...

2018.02.22 (Thu)

【#497】Stymied Chinese Empire Projects

February 19, 2018 　　　　　The Chinese Xi Jinping regime’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a modern silk-road economic zone scheme, has been stymied in Southeast and Southwest Asia. This is because th...

2017.11.16 (Thu)

【#480】Chance Has Come to Promote Indo-Pacific Quadrilateral Partnership

November 13, 2017 　　　　　At a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Da Nang, central Vietnam, the United States attempting to recover its lost ground with an Indo-Pacific strateg...

2017.09.28 (Thu)

【#470】Reject Elected Elites Having No Willingness to Protect People

September 25, 2017 　　　　　Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has chosen to dissolve the House of Representatives for a snap election amid the North Korean nuclear crisis. Opposition parties have immediately ...

2017.08.09 (Wed)

【#459】Asking for Abe’s Determination to Amend Constitution

August 7, 2017 　　　　　Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his third reshuffled cabinet amid very adverse conditions. What I worry about is apparent hesitation in expressing his determination to amend...

2017.08.02 (Wed)

【#456】“SDF That Cannot Combat” Weakens Deterrence

July 31, 2017 　　　　　Responsible politicians should tackle a national security crisis Japan faces instead of playing with empty theories about the Self-Defense Forces’ “cover-up tendency.” In a mann...

2017.06.28 (Wed)

【#447(Special)】U.S.-China Truce on Brink of Collapse

June 26, 2017 　　　　　China that sticks to big-power egoism rejects issuing a communique or boycotts a press conference when bilateral talks fail to make progress in its favor, as indicated by the re...

2017.05.08 (Mon)

【#436】Don’t Leave China or Russia to Back up North Korea

May 1, 2017 　　　　　North Korea has long used the so-called brinkmanship policy as its special measure for playing a diplomatic game with the United States, threatening to resort to war. In the curre...

2017.03.29 (Wed)

【#429】U.S. Strategy against Pyongyang Reach Impasse

March 27, 2017 　　　　　U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared an end to U.S. “strategic tolerance” in regard to North Korean provocations when he made his first East Asian tour in March. Then...

2017.02.02 (Thu)

【#419】Japan Should Accept Responsibility Sharing with U.S.

January 30, 2017 　　　　　How will the Japan-U.S. alliance survive under the unpredictable Trump administration? New U.S. President Donald Trump in his inaugural address said, “We will reinforce old a...