Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

December 19, 2016 　　　　　No matter how one looks at it, the latest summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin came at the worst timing for Japan. A joint ...

November 14, 2016 　　　　　The world view or strategic view of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is still unknown. If he holds fast to his parochial doctrine of “America First” as promised during camp...

February 29, 2016 　　　　　U.S. or Chinese military movements in the South and East China Seas have been reported almost every day on newspapers and magazines in or out of Japan, and on the Internet. ...