Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

September 12, 2017 　　　　　On September 11, the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution on sanctions on North Korea only a week after Pyongyang conducted its sixth nuclear explosion ...

September 11, 2017 　　　　　On September 6, Japan’s public broadcasting corporation NHK took up the school textbook issue in its television program named “Closeup Gendai+.” The program reported that a...

September 4, 2017 　　　　　On September 3, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear explosion test. On the previous day, I met with an informant with connections to the inside of North Korea in Seoul w...

September 4, 2017 　　　　　Japan’s defense budget request for fiscal 2018 hit a record 5.25 trillion yen. However, the past trend in a Ministry of Defense budget request line graph shows that the requ...

August 29, 2017 　　　　　On August 25, I got a meeting with Vartan Gharpetian, mayor of Glendale in California. In the city close to Los Angeles, a statue of a comfort woman for the wartime Imperial J...

August 28, 2017 　　　　　On August 5, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted new sanctions on North Korea for its firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The new sanctions incl...

August 21, 2017 　　　　　South Korean President Moon Jae In told a press conference on August 17 that Korean workers requisitioned for Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies before the end of World W...

August 14, 2017 　　　　　The Ministry of Defense has just published a defense white paper for 2017. Having read the annual report, titled Defense of Japan 2017, I sensed a deviation between Part I “Se...

August 7, 2017 　　　　　Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his third reshuffled cabinet amid very adverse conditions. What I worry about is apparent hesitation in expressing his determination to amend...

August 2, 2017 　　　　　I have reiterated that South Korean President Moon Jae In and his supporters have the “anti-South Korean masochistic view of history” meaning that pro-Japan Koreans who had coo...