2024, December Archives
【#1210】Consider Japan’s Defense Spending at 3% of GDP
December 23, 2024 The Financial Times in its online edition on December 20 reported that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump urged North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states to increase their ...
December 23, 2024 On December 17, the draft Seventh Strategic Energy Plan was released by the Japanese government. Earlier, on September 9, an energy study group of the Japan Institute for Nationa...
December 23, 2024 The year 2025, which marks the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the “War of Resistance against Japan,” is likely to feature a history war between Japan and China. The Japan...
【#1207】China Conducts Practical Exercises for Taiwan Contingency
December 16, 2024 China has apparently conducted large-scale military exercises around Taiwan and in the western Pacific. Although there has been no official announcement by China so far, China Co...
【#1206】Yoon’s Self-Destructing Action Leaves Economic Security Fluid
December 9, 2024 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s shocking declaration of martial law and its failure have jolted Japan, too. While the South Korean National Assembly has failed to pass an i...
【#1205】Incompetent President Paving Way to Anti-Japanese Regime
December 9, 2024 “Conservatives in South Korea must fall to the ground. Only then can they regenerate,” said South Korean conservative leader Cho Gab Je in the wake of chaos over President Yoon Su...
December 2, 2024 On November 30, the Chinese government resumed short-term visa exemption for Japan. The Japanese government welcomed the move as indicating China’s positive stance toward improvin...
【#1203】South Korea Must Overcome View of Wartime Workers as Slaves
December 2, 2024 On November 24, a memorial service for workers who died at the Sado Island Gold Mines, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, took place at the site in the central Japan prefectur...
【#1202】North Korean General Killed in Ukraine War
December 2, 2024 On November 20, about 500 North Korean troops, including a general, were killed in an attack by Ukrainian forces occupying part of the western Russian region of Kursk, according t...