Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Jun 22, 2022 (Wed)

【#933】Refer to History When Developing International Economic Order

June 20, 2022 　 The international economic order is now facing an age of division due to Western countries’ confrontation with China and Russia. Economic sanctions against Russia have brought about ...

Jun 22, 2022 (Wed)

【#932】Supporting Maher Proposal

June 20, 2022 　 Kevin Maher, a former director of the Office of Japanese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, has proposed Japan to provide the Self-Defense Forces’ Type 12 surface-to-ship missi...

Jun 20, 2022 (Mon)

【#931】Japan Should Provide Ukraine with Surface-to-ship Missiles

June 20, 2022 　 There are times in history in which extraordinary circumstances require exceptional measures. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the world to one of those moments. Japa...

Jun 20, 2022 (Mon)

【#930】Pax Americana Is Over

June 20, 2022 　 The online edition of Foreign Affairs on June 13 carried an article headlined “The Real End of Pax Americana.” Its author is Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign...

Jun 16, 2022 (Thu)

【#929】Regrettable U.S. Failure to Invite Taiwan to RIMPAC Exercise

June 13, 2022 　 Taiwan is not among participants in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval exercise between June 29 and August 4, as announced by the U.S. Navy recently. The U.S. Defense Authorizatio...

Jun 15, 2022 (Wed)

【#928】Problematic Court Injunction against Nuclear Plant

June 13, 2022 　 The Sapporo District Court on May 31 issued an injunction against restarting the Tomari nuclear power station in Hokkaido. Since the Fukushima nuclear power station accident that acc...

Jun 14, 2022 (Tue)

【#927】Brzezinski’s Respectable Foresight

June 13, 2022 　 Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, authored a book titled “The Grand Chessboard” 25 years ago. French demographer Emmanuel T...

Jun 09, 2022 (Thu)

【#926】Kishida Should Completely Break MOF’s Spell

June 6, 2022 　 Japanese government under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has removed a goal of achieving a primary balance surplus in fiscal 2025 from the “Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Manage...

Jun 08, 2022 (Wed)

【#925】Defense Enhancement within 5 Years Must be Supported by Budget

June 6, 2022 　 While Germany had decided to increase its defense spending to more than 2% of its gross domestic product in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the Japanese government ha...

Jun 01, 2022 (Wed)

【#924】Quad and IPEF Signaling New International Economic Order

May 30, 2022 　 A Japan-U.S. summit, the launching of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and a Japan-U.S.-Australia-India Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) summit in late May were signif...