【#1095】Sound Public Finances Do Not Mean Balanced Budget
November 27, 2023 Article 4 (1) of Japan’s Public Finance Act, the basic law on national finances, provides for the balanced budget principle that denies dependence on government bonds, while exce...
【#1094】Poor U.S. Government Reality Exposed through IPEF Talks
November 21, 2023 The U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) ministerial and leaders’ meetings took place last week, producing agreement on “decarbonization” and “clean economy” out of th...
【#1093】Don’t Be Fooled by U.S.-China Superficial Fence-Mending
November 20, 2023 Amid the worst U.S.-China relations since their normalization in 1979, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting in a San Francisco suburb on Nov...
【#1092】Japan Needs Countermeasures to Resolve Outstanding Issues with China
November 20, 2023 At their first meeting in a year, the top Japanese and Chinese leaders, though reaffirming the comprehensive promotion of a “mutually beneficial relationship based on common stra...
【#1091】We must not run from the struggle to constitutionalize SDF
November 13, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has repeatedly vowed to amend the constitution during his term. His term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ends in September next y...
【#1090】Reconsider How to Select Supreme Court Judges
November 6, 2023 As not a few Supreme Court rulings including a recent one on gender change are taken as deviating from public awareness, doubts about the qualifications and awareness of Supreme C...
【#1089】Ueda-led BOJ Should Not Be Deluded by Market
November 6, 2023 The Bank of Japan (BOJ) under Governor Kazuo Ueda is losing ground to market speculators, mainly foreign investors. If the central bank continues to follow the market, the yen’s r...
【#1088】Two Meanings of Ruling on “Comfort Women of the Empire”
October 30, 2023 On October 26, the South Korean Supreme Court reversed a second trial ruling that had fined Park Yu Ha, a professor emeritus at Sejong University, 10 million won (about $7,400) in...
【#1087】The Problem Is that Gender Can Be Changed by Surgery
October 30, 2023 On October 25, the Japanese Supreme Court denied the constitutionality of a law that requires reproductive glands (testes or ovaries as internal genitalia) to be defunctionalized ...
【#1086】Does Kishida Have a Passion?
October 30, 2023 Is this the beginning of the end of the Kishida administration? Hiroshige Seko, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Councillors, has openly qu...
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Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Takashi Arimoto
Hiroshi Yuasa
Masahiko Hosokawa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Yujiro Oiwa
Hideo Tamura
Shiro Takahashi
Hironobu Ishikawa
Akira Momochi
Akio Yaita
Yoshihiko Yamada
Kiyofumi Iwata
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Kunio Orita
Koichi Endo
Seiji Kurosawa
Brahma Chellaney
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Etsuro Honda
Sumihiko Kawamura
Nobuko Araki
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Hiroshi Ito
Mio Sugita
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Satoshi Hirano
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Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
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Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
Hong Hyung
Andrii Gurenko
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Katsutoshi Kawano
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Kazuto Suzuki
Koko Kato
Koichi Mera
Akihisa Nagashima
Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
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