2022, May Archives
May 24, 2022 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on May 23 stated his determination to fundamentally reinforce Japan’s defense capability and secure “s...
【#921】How New Economic Framework Will Actually Benefit Asia
May 23, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) during his visit to Japan. Following talks with relevant countries since the initiative was...
【#920】Opposition to a Hiroshima G7 Summit
May 16, 2022 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is entering final stage of planning to hold an annual summit of the Group of Seven industrial democracies in Hiroshima City next year. He claims that atom...
【#919】Biden Is Partially Responsible for Japan’s Nuclear Insecurity
May 16, 2022 As Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons since its aggression against Ukraine, insecurity in Japan about nuclear attacks has led to growing calls for “nuclear sharing” with the...
【#918】Russia Sanctions Require Energy Security Perspective
May 16, 2022 The Group of Seven industrial democracies agreed in principle on an embargo on Russian oil at their virtual summit on May 8. Japan has decided that it has no choice but to give priori...
【#917】Okinawa’s Anti-Mainland Sentiment Is Difficult to Eliminate
May 16, 2022 While events to mark the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japan took place at various locations in Japan these days, I sensed little rejoicing from the bottom of heart expre...
【#916】How to Counter North Korean Nuclear Intimidation: Part 2
May 9, 2022 In this column on April 4, I wrote that nuclear intimidation against non-nuclear South Korea by senior North Korean officials including Kim Yo Jong, a sister of top leader Kim Jong Un ...
【#915】Sanctions Without Defense Buildup Are Dangerous
May 9, 2022 “Ukraine is tomorrow’s Asia,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at a press conference at the end of his recent six-nation tour, demonstrating Japan’s solidarity with Western c...
【#914】Chance Has Come for Japan to Amend Constitution
May 2, 2022 Changes in the international situation are prompting the need for Japan to amend the constitution. The Ukraine war has led North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries to enhance defen...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Takashi Arimoto
Masahiko Hosokawa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Yujiro Oiwa
Shiro Takahashi
Hironobu Ishikawa
Akira Momochi
Hideo Tamura
Akio Yaita
Yoshihiko Yamada
Kiyofumi Iwata
Katsuhiko Takaike
Koichi Endo
Seiji Kurosawa
Brahma Chellaney
Kunio Orita
James Auer
Sumihiko Kawamura
Nobuko Araki
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Osamu Nishi
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Eriko Yamatani
Tadashi Ito
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Kenro Nagoshi
Nobuyuki Sato
Takeshi Kudo
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Koichi Furusho
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Hiroshi Ito
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Satoshi Hirano
Lee Woo Young
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
Hong Hyung
Andrii Gurenko
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Katsutoshi Kawano
Etsuro Honda
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Kazuto Suzuki
Koko Kato
Koichi Mera
Akihisa Nagashima
Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
Hirotaka Watanabe
Akinaka Senzaki
Kevin Maher
Yang Yi
