【#172】Park’s Mission Is to Enhance Relations with Japan, U.S.
December 20, 2012 Park Geun-hye won in the December 19 South Korean presidential election, obtaining 1.08 million more votes than her rival candidate. She garnered 51.55% of total votes against 48....
【#171】Voters’ Choice to Reject Nuclear Phase-out
December 17, 2012 Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan was defeated by his Liberal Democratic Party rival in the December 16 House of Representatives election after his campaigns where he stood on a bee...
【#170】N. Korean Dictator Exposes Youth Causing Government Troubles
December 10, 2012 North Korea’s Kim Jong-un regime appears to go astray. While the dictatorship system has been maintained, the dictator’s very inferior governance has caused various government tro...
【#169】Japan Can’t Revitalize Economy with Monetary Easing Alone
As political parties have been releasing their campaign promises toward the December 16 general election, the Liberal Democratic Party’s monetary easing policy has attracted attention since LDP Presid...
【#168】Help Myanmar Reduce Dependence on China
November 26, 2012 Four members of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals Planning Committee, including JINF Vice President Katsuhiko Takaike, visited Myanmar from November 11 through 18, exc...
【#167】I Am Proud of Japan Supporting Tibet
November 19, 2012 On November 13, the hall of the House of Councilors Members Office Building was dominated with an air of excitement. Present were 134 Diet members and 98 proxies who gathered to l...
#166 China Likely to Settle Battle between Rule of Law and That of Men
November 12, 2012 International attention now focuses on Beijing. Premier Wen Jiabao, who has come to a spotlight since the October 25 New York Times story on his family’s colossal fortune, describ...
#165 Japan Should Bring Takeshima Issue to ICJ
November 5, 2012 The Noda administration has effectively withdrawn its plan to unilaterally bring Japan’s territorial dispute with South Korea over the Takeshima Islands to the International Court ...
#164 Remote PC Control Case Exposes Cyber Security Flaws
October 30, 2012 Wrongful arrests involving viruses for remote control of computers have attracted attention in Japan. Someone took remote control of others’ personal computers to commit the crime ...
#163 Look at Tense Iranian Situation
October 22, 2012 The most important news for citizens may be those about themselves and their respective countries. News may be less important for citizens if news event locations are more distant ...