【#182】Abe Should Use Momentum to Take Courageous Actions
February 25, 2013 I highly appreciate Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as having made careful preparations and prompt decisions to win U.S. President Barack Obama's satisfactory ...
【#181】Abe Would Do Better to Specify Japan’s Nuke Option
February 18, 2013 U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks on North Korea's third nuclear bomb test on February 12 have suggested no strong will to resolutely block North Korea from becoming nucle...
【#180(Special)】Don’t Allow N. Korea to Be Nuclear-Armed
February 13, 2013 On February 12, North Korea forced a nuclear explosion test. The action clearly violates United Nations Security Council resolutions and represents an intolerable provocation ...
【#179】 Japan Should Demonstrate Resolve to Defend Territories
February 12, 2013 China's aggressiveness near Japan's Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is escalating. Chinese government ships have repeatedly intruded into Japan's territorial waters s...
Japan Must Be Prepared to Share Burdens (Tadae Takubo, Vice President, Japan Institute for National Fundamentals)
Speaking Out #178 February 4, 2013 "Japan-China relations amount to Japan-U.S. relations," said Shigeharu Matsumoto, who made a global scoop on the 1936 X...
Build Japan Refusing to Succumb to Terrorism (Yoshiko Sakurai, Journalist and President of JINF)
Speaking Out #177 The Algerian hostage incident, which broke out on January 16, essentially indicated terrorist groups, including the al-Qaeda network that attacked the United States in 2001,...
Abe’s Crisis Management Was Appropriate (Atsuyuki Sassa served as the first chief of the Cabinet Secretariat’s National Security Office created in 1986)
Speaking Out #176 The year 2013 is the year of the snake under the 12-year Chinese lunar calendar where each year is named after the 12 Chinese zodiac animals in turn. According to the late n...
Gov’t Should Now Decide to Enter TPP Talks (Yujiro Oiwa, Planning Committee Member of JINF and Professor at Tokyo International University)
Speaking Out #175 The Japanese government has remained vague about Japan's participation in negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement for the reason that the ruling Liberal...
Abe Should Send Correct Messages on Historical Issues (Yoshiko Sakurai, Journalist and President of JINF)
Speaking Out #174 Challenges for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe include historical perceptions, national security and economic stagnation that are all not easy to deal with. Particularly, he wi...
【#173】When Will X-Day Come for Chinese Communist Party?
December 25, 2012 The international situation in the past year features three points: the number of major players in the world has declined to two – the United States and China; Russia is shifting ...