2018, August Archives
【#538】Protect Japanese Companies from Korean Damage Suits
August 27, 2018 The Supreme Court of South Korea began hearings on August 23 on a damages suit against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. filed by former Korean workers requisitioned by Japa...
【#537(Special)】Chinese Marines Eying Invasion into Taiwan, Senkakus
August 20, 2018 On July 16, the U.S. Department of Defense released an annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. The report had been publis...
【#536】Hoping Emperor May Visit Yasukuni Shrine Next Spring
August 20, 2018 On August 15, the last war-end anniversary in the Heisei Era, 50 lawmakers belonging to a “Diet Members’ Group for Visiting the Yasukuni Shrine” visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrin...
【#535】Changes Signaled in Xi Jinping Regime
August 13, 2018 Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Communist Party top leaders started an important meeting with influential party elders including former Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Ji...
【#534(Special)】Oppose a Japan-N. Korea Joint Probe into Abduction
August 6, 2018 Even since North Korea’s abduction of Japanese citizens was taken up at the U.S.-North Korea summit in June, North Korea’s official media have continued to assert the abduction...
【#533】Famed U.S. Scholar Gives up on Maintaining International Order
August 6, 2018 Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard University, is known as the proponent of the “Thucydides Trap” theory likening a confrontation between hegemonistic countries to the riva...
【#532(Special)】Objection to Proposal for Japan and U.S. to Join AIIB
July 30, 2018 In the present world, a camp of countries that share values emphasizing freedom, democracy, human rights, market economy and rule-based international order is confronting with a...
【#531】Trump Is Right in Bashing Germany
July 30, 2018 I never imagine that the Japanese nostalgically recall the Japan-Germany alliance during World War II. But not a small number of Japanese people favor Germany. While everyone is...