【#1220】Supporting Japan’s Protest to a UN Committee
February 3, 2025 In a protest to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) that has recommended Japan to amend the Imperial House Act, the Japanese go...
【#1219】BOJ Should Focus on Economy Rather Than Exchange Rates
January 27, 2025 On January 24, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda not only raised the policy interest rate from 0.25% to 0.5%, but indicated his intention to continue the rate hike. In the backgro...
【#1218】A Big Difference Between Trump’s and Ishiba’s Speeches
January 27, 2025 I had to wonder how speeches could be so different: U.S. President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on January 20 and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s policy speech on Jan...
【#1217】Concern over Ishiba’s “Balanced” Foreign Policy
January 20, 2025 I am gravely concerned over a foreign policy that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba mentioned in Indonesia on January 11. “Both Japan and Indonesia are island countries. They are very...
【#1216】Yoon and His Supporters Believe in Election Fraud Theory
January 20, 2025 Supporters of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have been holding street rallies and mass demonstrations, attracting thousands to tens of thousands of people every day since an...
【#1215】BOJ Should Not Rush to Raise Interest Rate
January 20, 2025 The Bank of Japan will hold its monetary policy meeting on January 23 and 24. The focus of attention is on whether the policy rate, or the overnight interbank call rate as the mai...
【#1214】Prime Minister Ishiba Should Learn from Abe
January 14, 2025 Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is making arrangements to visit the United States for his first meeting with new U.S. President Donald Trump in the first half of February. When Ishi...
【#1213】Ishiba’s Precarious Leaning towards Japan-China-S. Korea FTA
January 14, 2025 The government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s pro-China stance has grown even more precarious. It plans to invite Chinese Communist Party Politburo member and Foreign Minister...
【#1212】South Korean Conspiracy Theorists Blocking Free Unification
January 6, 2025 The Korean Peninsula as the subject of my research underwent drastic upheavals last year. North Korea’s third hereditary dictator Kim Jong Un at a plenary meeting of the Workers’ P...
【#1211】Worrying about Ishiba’s Policy of Wooing China
January 6, 2025 Although in different directions, both the United States and China are seeking to fundamentally transform the postwar international order. In 2025, the world will naturally experie...