2023, February Archives
【#1015】Protect Cultural Assets to Prevent South Korean Thefts
February 20, 2023 On February 1, South Korea’s Daejeon High Court reversed a lower court ruling, rejecting a South Korean temple’s ownership of a Buddhist statue that had been stolen from a Japane...
【#1014】Risky Unlimited Ban on LGBT Discrimination
February 20, 2023 There is a claim that Japan is the only G7 (Group of Seven) member lacking a legal ban on discrimination against LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people. This claim ...
【#1013】Success of Ueda’s BOJ to Depend on Fiscal Policy
February 13, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has proposed to the National Diet the appointment of economist Kazuo Ueda as new Bank of Japan governor to succeed Haruhiko Kuroda. The government an...
【#1012】Misgivings Felt about Biden’s State of Union Address
February 13, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on February 7 provided misgivings to Japan that shares the Indo-Pacific strategy with the United States. Firstly, while talk...
【#1011】JCP Proves Different by Expelling Dissident Member
February 13, 2023 The Japanese Communist Party is shaking at an estimated intensity of 3 or 4 in the Japanese seismic scale of 0-7. We cannot take our eyes off the JCP plagued with aftershocks. Th...
February 9, 2023 I received many inquiries on my suggestion in this column on February 6 that Japan should identify China as the target of semiconductor export restrictions being planned under int...
February 6, 2023 A U.S. Air Force F-22 fighter shot down a Chinese reconnaissance balloon that flew across the continental United States. Japan has so far failed to enact any law to tackle foreign...
【#1008】On-the-Spot Survey Required to Protect Ecosystems on Senkakus
February 6, 2023 Facing the danger of Chinese invasion, Japan’s Senkaku Islands are kept under heavy guard by the Japan Coast Guard. However, the Japanese government does not allow anyone other th...
【#1007】Japan Commended for Utilizing Nuclear Energy
February 6, 2023 I participated in a symposium of the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from January 30 through February 2. ISOE is a forum seeking to...
February 6, 2023 Japan and the Netherlands agreed in late January to join U.S. restrictions of high-end semiconductor exports to China, according to press reports. The Japanese government has refr...