2025, July Archives
【#1275】Dispel Doubts over Japan-U.S. Tariff Deal
July 28, 2025 After prolonged difficulties, the Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations suddenly took a dramatic turn and reached an agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump touted the agreement as “the larg...
【#1274】Tariff Negotiations: Deals or Rules?
July 28, 2025 Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations reached an agreement on July 23. The main focus was a U.S. tariff on automobiles, particularly passenger cars, as the auto industry is a cornerstone of...
【#1273】‘Sosei Nippon’ Should Lead LDP’s Rebuilding
July 22, 2025 Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba lost three successive major elections: a general election of the House of Representatives in December, a ...
【#1272】Any Political Upheaval in China?
July 14, 2025 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s absence from the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7 has sparked a lot of speculation. As this marks the first time Xi has missed the BRICS summ...
【#1271】A Deplorable Reality: The LDP’s No. 2 Is a China-Flatterer
July 14, 2025 I have no words other than “a China-flatterer” to characterize the current No. 2 leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party. LDP Secretary General Hiroshi Moriyama has been de...
【#1270】Amend Constitution to Overcome National Crisis
July 7, 2025 Japan is now, quite literally, facing a national crisis. As China steadily prepares for an invasion of Taiwan and the risk of a Taiwan-Japan contingency rises, the U.S. Trump administ...
【#1269】Ishiba to Blame as Trump’s Tariff Salvo Hits Japan
July 7, 2025 As the July 9 deadline for Japan-U.S. trade negotiations was approaching, U.S. President Donald Trump voiced his dissatisfaction with Japan’s stance and threatened to raise tariffs on...
【#1268】Americans Should Reflect on Atomic Bomb Justification Remarks
June 30, 2025 Japan cannot ignore what U.S. President Donald Trump said in The Hague, the Netherlands. He said: “[U.S. military strikes on Iran] ended the war. I don’t want to use an example of...
【#1267】Ishiba Should Address Defense Hike in Election
June 30, 2025 Wasn’t Japan playing a leading role in deepening cooperation between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its Indo-Pacific partners? Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was invited t...
June 30, 2025 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its summit on June 25 approved a goal of increasing defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in each member country by 2035. E...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Takashi Arimoto
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Masahiko Hosokawa
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Etsuro Honda
Yujiro Oiwa
Kunio Orita
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Katsuhiko Takaike
Akira Momochi
Yoshihiko Yamada
Akio Yaita
Seiji Kurosawa
Michio Ezaki
Maki Nakagawa
Brahma Chellaney
Koichi Endo
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Yang Haiying
Hiroshi Kimura
Sumihiko Kawamura
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Lee Woo Young
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
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
