2020, December Archives
December 28, 2020 A focus of discussions regarding Japan’s fifth Basic Plan for Gender Equality decided on by the cabinet on December 25 has been a system allowing married couples to use differe...
December 28, 2020 It is too timeworn to follow media’s year-end practice of selecting and commenting on the world’s 10 biggest news events of the past year. If I were to select only the biggest ...
December 21, 2020 Is South Korea under President Moon Jae In qualified to join a club of liberal democracies? British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a plan to invite India, Austra...
December 21, 2020 Novel coronavirus infections have continued a spread, forcing the Japanese government to suspend its Go to Travel campaign as a pillar of its economic stimulus package to cope ...
【#748】COVID-19 Countermeasures Should Be Fundamentally Revised
December 21, 2020 Japan’s COVID-19 countermeasures have a lot of problems. In fact, the infectivity and severity of the novel coronavirus disease were found not so different from those of influe...
【#747(Special)】Will Democracy Die in South Korea?
December 14, 2020 On December 10, South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party railroaded through the National Assembly an amendment to the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials Ac...
【#746】Will New U.S. Defense Secretary Lead to Enhancing Alliances?
December 14, 2020 U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Lloyd Austin, a retired Army general, as defense secretary. As commander of U.S. Central Command in charge of the Middle East, Aust...
【#745(Special)】Create a Framework to Impose Sanctions on China for Human Rights Abuse
December 7, 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders have been arrested and sentenced to prison one after another. The Chinese actions have come under growing fire in Japan. Even the Asahi Shimbun n...
【#744(Special)】Next Year Being Crucial for Constitutional Amendments
December 7, 2020 The Japanese National Diet ended an extraordinary session on December 5 without revising this time again the National Referendum Act that provides for constitutional amendment p...
【#743】Cool Down to Reconsider Coronavirus Countermeasures
December 7, 2020 The year 2020, an annus horribilis of the Wuhan virus, is ending in about 20 days. During the year, media have continued to make fear-fueling reports, leading people to believe ...