【#1376】Serious Question about Expected BOJ Rate Hike
June 1, 2026 The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its policy interest rate at its monetary policy meeting scheduled for June 15-16. Although the rate hike is reportedly designed to respond to ri...
June 1, 2026 Since the dismissal of the commander and political commissar of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force in 2023, media reports have suggested a potential decline in its operational ...
【#1374】Can Japan Protect Its People While Shelving Nuclear Discussions?
June 1, 2026 On May 25, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on Security approved a draft proposal for updating the Japanese government’s three security-related documents late...
【#1373】Don’t Run away from Amending Article 9 of Constitution
May 25, 2026 Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s convention in April said “the time has come” for amending the constitution. “I would like the way to be paved by...
【#1372】Takaichi’s Mission Is to Have National Military Forces
May 25, 2026 Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who took office while vowing to inherit and develop former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s political vision, has a historic mission. It is to make Japan an ...
【#1371】Times Require Japan to Delete Paragraph 2 of Constitutional Article 9
May 25, 2026 Since the Shinzo Abe administration, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s constitutional amendment debate has focused on the explicit provision of the Self-Defense Forces in the Japa...
【#1370】Dangerous World Run by Only Two Great Powers
May 18, 2026 The recent U.S.–China summit in Beijing was a tug‑of‑war between competing timelines: Washington’s short‑term economic interests in China and Beijing’s long‑term pursuit of superiorit...
【#1369】National Movement to Wage History Wars Launched in South Korea
May 11, 2026 On April 30, the New History National Movement to wage history wars was launched in South Korea. Its three co-representatives are Lee Young Hoon, a former professor at Seoul National ...
【#1368】Military Exercise Demonstrating Japan-U.S.-Philippine Cooperation against China
May 11, 2026 This year’s multilateral joint military exercise Balikatan, which means “shoulder to shoulder” in the Tagalog language of the Philippines, has turned out far more significant than eve...
【#1367】Insufficient Framework for Constitutional Amendments in Japan
May 11, 2026 Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who also serves as the President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, intends to draw up a proposal for constitutional amendments by next year’s LDP ...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Takashi Arimoto
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Masahiko Hosokawa
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Kunio Orita
Maki Nakagawa
Etsuro Honda
Yujiro Oiwa
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Katsuhiko Takaike
Michio Ezaki
Akira Momochi
Akio Yaita
Yoshihiko Yamada
Seiji Kurosawa
Koichi Endo
Brahma Chellaney
Nobuko Araki
Yang Haiying
James Auer
Sumihiko Kawamura
Hiroshi Kimura
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
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
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
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
Tomohisa Takei
