December 18, 2023 At a cabinet meeting in December last year, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida thoroughly revised the National Security Strategy and other related documents, moving t...
【#1098】Discarding Old Equipment Does Not Strengthen War Potential
December 11, 2023 It is said that logistics determine the outcome of war. It is also said that there is no victory without air supremacy. Ukraine’s counteroffensive since June has failed to achiev...
【#1097】Political Will Required to Enhance Japan-Taiwan Deterrence
December 11, 2023 While the war between Russia and Ukraine has plunged into a stalemate, the Congress of the United States, the largest military supporter for Ukraine, has been unable to agree on ...
【#1096】It’s Time for Kishida to Show Leadership for Expanding Weapon Exports
December 4, 2023 The ruling parties’ coordination on Japan’s overseas defense equipment transfers between Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito is in disarray as the latter ha...
【#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...