【#828】Kono Has Yet to Seal Off Nuclear Phaseout
September 14, 2021 “I would restart and use nuclear power plants that can be used after confirming their safety,” Taro Kono told a news conference on September 10 when he announced his candidacy f...
【#827】Assessing LDP Presidential Candidates from National Security Viewpoint
September 13, 2021 On September 10, Taro Kono declared his candidacy for ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s president, joining Fumio Kishida and Sanae Takaichi. In the unprecedentedly severe nation...
【#826】Are LDP Presidential Candidates Ready to Confront China?
September 13, 2021 Candidates for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election on September 29 are asked if they are ready to address the deterioration of security environment surro...
【#825】Would a Prime Minister Kono Be Okay?
September 6, 2021 Administrative reform minister Taro Kono has shown his intention to run for the presidency of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s announ...
【#824】Postwar Regime behind Bogged-down Japanese Pullout from Afghanistan
September 6, 2021 Both the Japanese Foreign and Defense Ministries might have had a headache, as they have come under media fire for their poor performance in Japanese pullout from Afghanistan. Me...
【#823】LDP Presidential Candidates Should Discuss National Vision
August 30, 2021 We have some questions to ask to candidates for a presidential election of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party that will be officially announced on September 17 for voting on S...
【#822】China Eying Afghan Mineral Resources
August 23, 2021 Afghanistan has massive underground mineral resources. As the U.S. Biden administration has prematurely withdrawn U.S. forces from Afghanistan and allowed the Islamic fundamentalis...
【#821】Japan Should Become Self-Reliant in the Wake of Afghan Defeat
August 23, 2021 The Islamic fundamentalist Taliban group has taken control of Afghanistan for the first time in two decades. The result represents a defeat for Japan as well that has poured as muc...
【#820】Taliban Victory May Change U.S.-China Confrontation Framework
August 23, 2021 What it boils down to is that U.S. military, the most powerful in the world, was defeated in a 20-year war with the Afghan Taliban which is nothing more than one of Islamic fundame...
【#819】Proposing Joint U.S.-Japan Naval Passage Through Taiwan Strait
August 16, 2021 Tensions are rising in the Taiwan Strait as China expands its military activities. From January 1 to August 8 this year, a total of 367 Chinese People’s Liberation Army aircraft in...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Takashi Arimoto
Masahiko Hosokawa
Yujiro Oiwa
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Akio Yaita
Akira Momochi
Katsuhiko Takaike
Yoshihiko Yamada
Koichi Endo
Seiji Kurosawa
James Auer
Brahma Chellaney
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Sumihiko Kawamura
Osamu Nishi
Tadashi Saito
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Kenro Nagoshi
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Tadashi Ito
Hideo Tamura
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Arvind Gupta
Koji Okamoto
Hideaki Karaki
Hong Hyung
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Takeshi Kudo
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Koichi Mera
Akihisa Nagashima
Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
Hirotaka Watanabe
Shohei Umezawa
Akinaka Senzaki
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Koichi Furusho
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Kiyofumi Iwata
Hiroshi Ito
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Satoshi Hirano
Jason Morgan
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Tsutomu Toichi
