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Speaking out

Feb 14, 2024 (Wed)

【#1117】It Is Time to Provide Strong Support to Ukraine

February 13, 2024 　 On January 14, a Russian A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft was shot down by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile over the Sea of Azov, southeast of Ukraine. Although ...

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Feb 07, 2024 (Wed)

【#1116】Too Early to End Monetary Easing in Japan

February 5, 2024 　 The Bank of Japan has persistently continued with monetary easing in order to completely overcome deflation that has been stagnating Japan’s economy for a long time. Under its mon...

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Feb 07, 2024 (Wed)

【#1115】Abe Faction Disbandment Reflects Heavenly Voice

February 5, 2024 　 The largest faction within Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party was destined to be disbanded. This is because the Abe faction, officially known as the Seiwa Policy Study Group,...

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Feb 01, 2024 (Thu)

【#1114】S. Korean Court Admitted Academic Freedom in Ruling on Comfort Women

January 29, 2024 　 On January 24, the Seoul Western District Court acquitted a former university professor accused of defamation through a remark that wartime comfort women were a kind of prostitute...

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Feb 01, 2024 (Thu)

【#1113】Pyongyang’s Policy Shift Stems from People’s Longing for South

January 29, 2024 　 A major policy shift is taking place in Pyongyang. South Korea is not part of the same nation to be reunified, but an enemy country to be conquered by war, according to North Kore...

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Jan 31, 2024 (Wed)

【#1112】Plight of Kawaguchi City Accepting Foreigners Loosely

January 29, 2024 　 Kawaguchi City in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo is a core city with a population of 600,000, of which about 40,000 or 6.7% are foreigners. While many of them are familiar with the...

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Jan 31, 2024 (Wed)

【#1111】Aim for Policy-oriented Politics Following Abe’s Example

January 29, 2024 　 The late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aimed for policy-oriented politics. In the first place, factions emerged within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to respond, in a s...

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Jan 24, 2024 (Wed)

【#1110】Detect Falsified GDP Data and Disengage from China

January 22, 2024 　 Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has announced that China achieved its real economic growth target of 5% for 2023 as China’s gross domestic product in the year increa...

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Jan 24, 2024 (Wed)

【#1109】Was Japan’s Economy Overtaken by Germany?

January 22, 2024 　 In 2023, it became certain that Japan’s nominal GDP (gross domestic product) on a dollar basis was overtaken by Germany, dropping Japan to the fourth largest economy in the world....

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Jan 24, 2024 (Wed)

【#1108】Eliminate Harm of Factions and Head for Constitutional Amendment

January 22, 2024 　 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who doubles as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has announced to dissolve a major LDP faction that he had led. In response, the larges...

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