2024, January Archives
【#1112】Plight of Kawaguchi City Accepting Foreigners Loosely
January 29, 2024 Kawaguchi City in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo is a core city with a population of 600,000, of which about 40,000 or 6.7% are foreigners. While many of them are familiar with the...
【#1111】Aim for Policy-oriented Politics Following Abe’s Example
January 29, 2024 The late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aimed for policy-oriented politics. In the first place, factions emerged within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to respond, in a s...
【#1110】Detect Falsified GDP Data and Disengage from China
January 22, 2024 Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has announced that China achieved its real economic growth target of 5% for 2023 as China’s gross domestic product in the year increa...
【#1109】Was Japan’s Economy Overtaken by Germany?
January 22, 2024 In 2023, it became certain that Japan’s nominal GDP (gross domestic product) on a dollar basis was overtaken by Germany, dropping Japan to the fourth largest economy in the world....
January 22, 2024 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who doubles as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has announced to dissolve a major LDP faction that he had led. In response, the larges...
【#1107】Don’t Restrict SDF Personnel from Visiting Yasukuni
January 15, 2024 On January 9, dozens of Self-Defense Forces personnel, including the deputy chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Many media...
【#1106】Lessons Japan Should Learn from Taiwan Election
January 15, 2024 During campaigns for Taiwan’s presidential election on January 13, Beijing tried to exert influence on Taiwan in a variety of ways to ensure that the election results would be fav...
January 15, 2024 It is delightful that Lai Chingte of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, who is pro-American and pro-Japanese and distances himself from China, won the presidential election th...
【#1104】EVs Deviating from Global Trends
January 10, 2024 When the New York Stock Exchange opened on January 3, Bloomberg reported investors’ short selling of shares in Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD. The stock price of Tesla, a...
【#1103】Expedite Restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant
January 9, 2024 On December 27, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) decided to lift a de facto operation ban for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture owned by Toky...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Takashi Arimoto
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Masahiko Hosokawa
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Yujiro Oiwa
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Kunio Orita
Katsuhiko Takaike
Etsuro Honda
Akira Momochi
Yoshihiko Yamada
Akio Yaita
Seiji Kurosawa
Brahma Chellaney
Koichi Endo
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Michio Ezaki
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Sumihiko Kawamura
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Maki Nakagawa
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Hong Hyung
Andrii Gurenko
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Katsutoshi Kawano
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Kazuto Suzuki
Koichi Mera
Akihisa Nagashima
Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
Hirotaka Watanabe
Akinaka Senzaki
Kevin Maher
Yang Yi
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Hiroshi Ito
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Satoshi Hirano
Lee Woo Young
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
