2026, January Archives
【#1341】North Korean Abduction Issue behind Lower House Dissolution
One of the major purposes of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s decision to dissolve the House of Representatives for a general election in the middle of winter was to a make progress on the abd...
January 26, 2026 The U.S. Department of Defense issued the National Defense Strategy (NDS) on January 23. The Pentagon’s priorities identified in the NDS are (1) U.S. homeland defense, (2) deterre...
January 26, 2026 The Nara District Court sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami to life imprisonment for shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to death. I believe the sentence should have been th...
January 26, 2026 The House of Representatives election was officially announced on January 27, with voting and ballot counting to take place on February 8. It is desirable for forces advocating co...
January 19, 2026 Chubu Electric Power Co. was found to have possibly underestimated the expected earthquake ground motion (the “design basis seismic ground motion”) in the safety review of the Ham...
【#1336】South Korean President Continuing History War at Home
January 19, 2026 South Korean President Lee Jae Myung visited China from January 4 to 7 and Japan from January 13 to 14. During the visits, Lee sealed anti-Japan diplomacy that brings historical p...
【#1335】Japan’s Future Course at Stake in Lower House Election
January 13, 2026 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will dissolve the House of Representatives at the outset of the annual National Diet session on January 23. Both ruling and opposition camp ...
January 19, 2026 “The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over,” says the U.S. National Security Strategy released last December, officially reaffirming the...
January 13, 2026 The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, whose primary mission is an invasion of Taiwan, conducted a joint exercise called “Justice Mission-2025” from ...
【#1332】Japan’s Position Seeks to Restore Democracy in Venezuela
January 13, 2026 How should we view the United States’ capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro? Some say that the U.S. action violates the United Nations Charter and international law, and ...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Takashi Arimoto
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Masahiko Hosokawa
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Kunio Orita
Etsuro Honda
Maki Nakagawa
Yujiro Oiwa
Shiro Takahashi
Hironobu Ishikawa
Katsuhiko Takaike
Akira Momochi
Yoshihiko Yamada
Akio Yaita
Michio Ezaki
Seiji Kurosawa
Koichi Endo
Brahma Chellaney
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Yang Haiying
Sumihiko Kawamura
Hiroshi Kimura
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Tadashi Ito
Satoshi Hirano
Lee Woo Young
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Yasuyuki Takai
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
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
