【#1393】Revise 10-Year Stay Requirement Under Permanent Residency Tightening
August 3, 2026 The Japanese government has settled on a policy to toughen permanent residency requirements for foreign nationals. It will, in principle, require applicants to have an annual income...
【#1392】Takaichi Should Steadily Implement Tax Cut and Growth Strategy
August 3, 2026 On July 30, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced her plan to lower the consumption tax on food products from 8% to 1% for two years from next April. This will be the first cut in...
【#1391】Let’s Promote Japan-Vietnam Nuclear Cooperation
July 27, 2026 The once‑stalled nuclear cooperation between Japan and Vietnam has begun moving toward revival. When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited Vietnam in May, the two countries ...
【#1390】Groundbreaking Basic Policy to Promote Growth
July 27, 2026 Japan’s annual Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform (the “Basic Policy”) was approved by the Cabinet on July 21. The document set forth the fundamental guidel...
【#1389】Japan Should Completely Break Nuclear Taboo
July 27, 2026 Ahead of the planned revision of Japan’s three strategic documents including the National Security Strategy late this year, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi stressed the need for a ...
【#1388】Use Construction Bonds to Increase Defense Spending
July 21, 2026 The National Security Strategy released by the former Fumio Kishida administration in late 2022 set a target of increasing Japan’s defense-related spending to 2% of gross domestic pr...
【#1387】Japan’s Imperial Tradition Has Overcome 3 Crises
July 21, 2026 July 18, 2026, marked a historic day as the House of Councillors passed the revised Imperial House Law in its plenary session, enacting it into law. Article 1 of the Imperial Hou...
【#1386】China Fired SLBM to Develop Nuclear Triad
July 13, 2026 On July 6, China announced that its Navy’s strategic nuclear submarine (SSBN) fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that accurately hit the target waters in the Pacific...
【#1385】Current Yen Weakness Provides Opportunity for Investment in Growth
July 6, 2026 The current weakness of the yen should be viewed as a strong tailwind for Japan’s economic restructuring. Japan does not have to be swayed by greedy currency speculators who are striv...
【#1384】Japan-India Strategic Relations Elevated to New Stage
July 6, 2026 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s visit to India from July 1 to 3 may be regarded as having clearly succeeded in elevating Japan-India relations to a new stage. Takaichi and he...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Takashi Arimoto
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Masahiko Hosokawa
Yoichi Shimada
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
