Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Jan 10, 2012 (Tue)

#123 India and Japan: Partnership Built on “Kizuna”

January 10, 2012 For India and Japan, the year 2011 ended on a high note. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda met in New Delhi on December 28 and re...

Dec 28, 2011 (Wed)

#122 Give Top Priority to Rescuing Abductees

December 26, 2011 Nine days have passed since the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il (if the Pyongyang-announced date for his death is correct). Mourning events hosted by his third son, Kim...

Dec 22, 2011 (Thu)

#121 Kim Jon Un Regime Will Not Last Long

December 19, 2011 North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, is finally dead. The immediate focus of attention is whether his third son Jong Un, nominated as...

Dec 22, 2011 (Thu)

#120 Grave Concerns about Noda’s Asian Diplomacy

December 19, 2011 I am ashamed to make a lot of noise by criticizing Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda for his coward diplomacy. But I feel that Noda was pressed unilaterally by South Korean President ...

Dec 16, 2011 (Fri)

#119 Imperial Female Family Branches Could Cause Troubles

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s Cabinet has launched a panel to consider allowing princesses to create imperial family branches after they marry. The Cabinet reportedly plans to promote this idea to r...

Dec 09, 2011 (Fri)

#118 Japan-U.S. Alliance Is Important, But…

In the past few months, various people told me: “Mr. Umehara, you had been in charge of negotiations on free trade and economic partnership agreements at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Y...

Dec 01, 2011 (Thu)

#117 U.S. Drives Wedge into China-Myanmar Relationship

November 28, 2011 The United States and Myanmar have apparently made rapid improvements in their relationship. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Myanmar for three days from Nove...

Nov 28, 2011 (Mon)

#116 Washington Aims to Build New U.S.-led Asian Order

November 21, 2011 U.S. President Barack Obama’s tour of Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia indicated his two purposes. First, Obama intended to deny that the United States has declined or begun to mov...

Nov 18, 2011 (Fri)

#115 TPP’s Significance for Counter-China Strategy

November 14, 2011 At a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Hawaii on November 12, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda came up with his plan to start consultations with relevant countries on Japan...

Nov 10, 2011 (Thu)

#114 Japan’s Agriculture to Grow on Participation in TPP

November 7, 2011 While some people say that Japan’s participation in the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement would devastate its agriculture, others question if the government is...