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Dec 10, 2025 (Wed)

【#1321】Questionable Advisability of BOJ’s Biased Approach to Rate Hikes

December 8, 2025 　 The Bank of Japan led by Governor Kazuo Ueda is likely to raise the policy interest rate, or the benchmark for short-term interest rates, by 0.25 percentage points to 0.75% at its...

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Dec 10, 2025 (Wed)

【#1320】New Trump Strategy and Japan’s Course

December 8, 2025 　 The U.S. National Security Strategy has been published. The strategy, though being named so, provides an extremely limited analysis of threats and a few references to the Russia-U...

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Dec 03, 2025 (Wed)

【#1319】Japan and U.S. Must Fight China’s Information War Together

December 1, 2025 　 A fierce Chinese information war is unfolding over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's parliamentary statement that a Taiwan emergency, if it involves the U.S. military, coul...

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Dec 03, 2025 (Wed)

【#1318】China’s 1st Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Under Construction?

December 1, 2025 　 China is building a large vessel, believed to be its fourth aircraft carrier, at a dockyard in Dalian, Liaoning Province. Satellite images confirm that frames similar to those for...

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Nov 27, 2025 (Thu)

【#1317】No Need to Overreact to China’s Economic Coercion

November 25, 2025 　 Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has taken a series of coercive measures against Japan, demanding that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi retract her remarks tha...

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Nov 26, 2025 (Wed)

【#1316】Counter Goliath’s Pressure with Flexibility

November 25, 2025 　 After angering a giant like Goliath, Japan should counter China’s coercive pressure with a flexible response strategy. In the Old Testament story, young shepherd David used a sli...

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Nov 19, 2025 (Wed)

【#1315】China’s New Aircraft Carrier Can Operate on 2nd Island Chain

November 17, 2025 　 On November 5, the Chinese Navy commissioned its third aircraft carrier, Fujian, at the Sanya Naval Base in Hainan Province located in China’s Southern Theater Command. It is Chi...

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Nov 19, 2025 (Wed)

【#1314】Mentioning Survival-Threating Situation Leads to Deterrence

November 17, 2025 　 At the House of Representatives Budget Committee on November 7, representatives from the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, including former Foreign Minister Ka...

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Nov 19, 2025 (Wed)

【#1313】China’s Japan Travel Restrictions: Just What We Wanted

November 17, 2025 　 In response to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s parliamentary remarks suggesting that a Taiwan emergency could constitute an existential threat to Japan, the Chinese gove...

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Nov 18, 2025 (Tue)

【#1312】Deport Chinese Consul General in Osaka

November 17, 2025 　 Chinese classics emphasize that etiquette should be prized. The Analects of Confucius include a famous passage: “Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is ...

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