Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

2026.10.22 (Thu)

【#1411】Unignorable Deterioration of U.S.-South Korea Relations

October 19, 2026 　 The deterioration of relations between South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung administration and the United States has become public. While U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly sent me...

2026.10.22 (Thu)

【#1410】Learn from Taiwan’s Resolve to Defend Itself

October 19, 2026 　 “As China’s economic coercion intensifies, Japan and Taiwan should jointly build ‘reliable supply chains’ in the field of dual-use components.” As the author made this proposal at...

2026.10.20 (Tue)

【#1409】Japan Should Urgently Enact Anti-Espionage Law

October 19, 2026 　 TV footage showing that the Russian Federal Security Service detained a male correspondent at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk bureau of Japan’s Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper on suspicion of es...

2026.10.13 (Tue)

【#1408】Takaichi’s Diplomacy Derailed China’s Strategy to Isolate Japan

October 13, 2026 　 On October 8, Hong Kong’s English-language newspaper South China Morning Post reported that U.S. President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Wash...

2026.10.06 (Tue)

【#1407】Claims of North Korean Economic Recovery Are Contrary to Fact

October 5, 2026 　 From September 21 to 25, I visited the United States as a member of a delegation comprising families of North Korean abduction victims, a support organization for the abductees, an...

2026.10.06 (Tue)

【#1406】Return Tax Revenue Growth to Private Sector

October 5, 2026 　 Japan’s National Diet kicked off an extraordinary autumn session on October 5, with deliberations set to begin on a bill to cut the consumption tax on food products. Coupled with t...

2026.10.01 (Thu)

【#1405】Chubu Electric’s Misconduct Caused Partially by NRA

September 28, 2026 　 On September 14, a report was released by an investigative committee regarding Chubu Electric Power Co.’s fraudulent manipulation of seismic data during the safety review for it...

2026.09.30 (Wed)

【#1404】U.S.-China Summit: Historical Fictions and Geopolitical Traps

September 28, 2026 　 The U.S.-China summit in Washington concluded, leaving the impression of a political drama marked by meticulous calculation and grand staging. U.S. President Donald Trump bracin...

2026.09.24 (Thu)

【#1403】BOJ Should Not Disrupt Takaichi’s Growth Strategy

September 24, 2026 　 At its monetary policy meeting on September 18, the Bank of Japan decided to raise its policy interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 1.25%, effective on September 24. The po...

2026.09.24 (Thu)

【#1402】Hopes on Get-Things-Done Cabinet

September 24, 2026 　 The reshuffled Second Takaichi Cabinet began work in earnest on Sept. 24 after Japan’s extended holiday weekend. Although news coverage of cabinet reshuffles tends to focus on p...