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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 ...

2017.09.21 (Thu)

【#469(Special)】Talks with Senior U.S. Officials on North Korean Problems

September 20, 2017 　　　　　For about a week from September 11, I visited Washington and New York as a member of a joint delegation of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnaped by North Kore...

2017.09.21 (Thu)

【#468】UNESCO’s Raison D’etre Called into Question over Comfort Women Issue

September 19, 2017 　　　　　The UNESCO International Advisory Committee might have been recommended by the Register Subcommittee to accept the inscription of a set of documents titled “Voices of the ‘...

2017.09.14 (Thu)

【#467(Special)】U.N. Sanctions to Deprive Kim of Foreign Currencies

September 12, 2017 　　　　　On September 11, the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution on sanctions on North Korea only a week after Pyongyang conducted its sixth nuclear explosion ...

2017.09.12 (Tue)

【#466】News Media Distorting School Textbook Issue

September 11, 2017 　　　　　On September 6, Japan’s public broadcasting corporation NHK took up the school textbook issue in its television program named “Closeup Gendai+.” The program reported that a...

2017.09.07 (Thu)

【#465(Special)】N. Korean Nuclear Crisis Reaching Crucial Stage

September 4, 2017 　　　　　On September 3, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear explosion test. On the previous day, I met with an informant with connections to the inside of North Korea in Seoul w...

2017.09.06 (Wed)

【#464】Budget Request Indicates Low Defense Consciousness

September 4, 2017 　　　　　Japan’s defense budget request for fiscal 2018 hit a record 5.25 trillion yen. However, the past trend in a Ministry of Defense budget request line graph shows that the requ...

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