2019, July Archives
【#610】Deceptive Chinese Defense White Paper
July 29, 2019 China released its first defense white paper in four years on July 24. It is titled “China’s National Defense in the New Era” maybe because it is the first report since t...
【#609】Distorted Reporting on Japan’s Export Control toward S. Korea
July 22, 2019 Why are Japanese media reports distorted when it comes to South Korea? Some media reports have described Japan’s tightened control on semiconductor material exports to So...
【#608(Special)】Moon’s Anti-Japan Policy Integrated with Anti-U.S. and Pro-North Policies
July 16, 2019 Japan’s relations with South Korea have persistently been deteriorating. I have been checking the situation in Seoul since July 13. South Korean conservative leaders agree that the Mo...
July 16, 2019 Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Hamilton Books), an English translation of a book by Japanese modern historian Ikuhiko Hata, has won this year’s Japan Study Spe...
July 16, 2019 On July 9, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford unveiled a plan for the United States to form a coalition of willingness with allies in a few weeks to ...
【#605】Japan Should Seek to Create World Whale-Raising Organization
July 8, 2019 Japan resumed commercial whaling in its 200-mile exclusive economic zone on July 1 after its notification of the withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission on De...
【#604】Japan Should Wake Up to “Third Black Ship Arrival”
July 1, 2019 “Japan’s fate was changed by the United States twice in history - the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s black ship in 1853 and Japan’s defeat by the U.S. in World War I...