【#269】Japan Should Be United to Fight Information War
October 20, 2014 On October 19, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals held a symposium titled "How to Fight International Information Wars" at an annual meeting for its members in T...
【#268】Japan’s Diplomacy with S. Korea Plunges into Crisis
October 14, 2014 Japan's diplomacy with South Korea has plunged into a grave crisis. This crisis is not related to the present deadlock in which the two countries cannot hold a bilateral su...
【#267】Abe Should Not Make Same Mistake as U.S. in Dealing with N. Korea
October 6, 2014 I am concerned that the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could make a great mistake in dealing with North Korea. As Japan's talks with North Korea start, some peo...
【#266】Can President Obama Fight against Terrorists?
September 29, 2014 The view that former U.S. President George W. Bush made a clear mistake by expanding his war against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq in response to terrorist attacks on...
【#265】Japan’s Role to Strike Weaknesses of PLA Navy
September 22, 2014 On September 19, I learned from a presentation by Dr. Toshi Yoshihara, professor of the U.S. Naval War College. Titled "Japan's Future Role in Maritime Asia," the speech ...
【#264】What I Felt in Washington
September 16, 2014 As a member of a delegation of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, I met with U.S. scholars and congressional officials during a week-long visit to Washington ...
【#263】Battle against Islamic State Could Become Turning Point for Obama Foreign Policy?
September 8, 2014 Signs of changes in the U.S. inward-looking mood are seen now that two American journalists have been killed by the radical Islamic State militant group that has taken con...
【#262】Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Distorted Explanations on Sex Slaves
September 1, 2014 When studying the changing concept of slaves under international law in the Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford University Press), I found an opini...
【#261】Xi Jinping Joins Hands with Hu Jintao in Power Struggle
August 25, 2014 The Xi Jingping administration's anti-corruption campaign has become similar to the past Cultural Revolution where betrayals were rampant. Xi is taking advantage of the campaig...
【#260】Asahi Shimbun in Summer 1945
August 18, 2014 “We are Japanese. We are all Japanese… Some in the crowd began to sing a song. The military song was ‘Umi Yukaba’ (If I go away to the sea)… It’s the voice of the nation. It’s...