2021, April Archives
April 27, 2021 On April 27, the Japanese government made important cabinet decisions on comfort women and wartime Korean workers issues. It concluded the word “wartime comfort women” as inappropri...
【#787】Thinking about 46% Reduction Goal of GHG Emissions
April 26, 2021 Japan will seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions in fiscal 2030 by 46% from fiscal 2013, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said just before participating in an online climate change summ...
【#786】Rakuten and Government Required to Address Tencent Issue
April 26, 2021 I have pointed out concern over economic security regarding investment in Rakuten Inc. by a subsidiary of Chinese information technology giant Tencent Holding Ltd. in this column si...
【#785】Japan’s Commitment to Military Contributions Being Tested
April 19, 2021 Japanese newspapers might have exhausted all possible comments about the latest Japan-U.S. summit. The summary of its significance is that the Biden administration has won Japan’s c...
【#784】Normalization of South Korean Politics Still Far Away
April 12, 2021 On April 7, mayoral by-elections took place in Seoul and Busan to elect new mayors to serve the remaining one year of the term after sexual harassment scandals forced the Busan mayo...
April 12, 2021 Since early March when 220 Chinese fishing boats appeared in the vicinity of the South China Sea’s Whitsun Reef on which the Philippines claims jurisdiction, some of the ships still...
【#782】Appreciating Decision to Release Treated Water into Ocean
April 12, 2021 The Japanese government’s decision to release water including radioactive tritium from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...
【#781】Komeito Leader Should Not Care Too Much for China
April 5, 2021 The Komeito party, which is supported by Soka Gakkai as Japan’s largest religious organization and has formed a ruling coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party, has regarded itsel...
【#780】What Would Japan Do in Response to a Taiwan Contingency?
April 5, 2021 A Japan-U.S. summit in Washington on April 16 represents U.S. President Joe Biden’s first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader since his inauguration in January, indicating how...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Takashi Arimoto
Masahiko Hosokawa
Yujiro Oiwa
Shiro Takahashi
Hironobu Ishikawa
Akira Momochi
Akio Yaita
Katsuhiko Takaike
Koichi Endo
Seiji Kurosawa
Yoshihiko Yamada
James Auer
Brahma Chellaney
Sumihiko Kawamura
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Osamu Nishi
Tadashi Saito
Tadashi Ito
Hideo Tamura
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Arvind Gupta
Koji Okamoto
Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Kenro Nagoshi
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Shohei Umezawa
Eriko Yamatani
Kiyofumi Iwata
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Satoshi Hirano
Jason Morgan
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Tsutomu Toichi
Ryoichi Hamamoto
Hong Hyung
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Takeshi Kudo
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Koichi Mera
Akihisa Nagashima
Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
Hirotaka Watanabe
Akinaka Senzaki
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Koichi Furusho
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Hiroshi Ito
