Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Jul 26, 2012 (Thu)

#151 Interpreting North Korea’s Dismissal of Army Chief

July 23, 2012 In North Korea last week, Ri Yong-ho was dismissed as chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army, while Workers’ Party First Secretary Kim Jong-un was promoted from genera...

Jul 19, 2012 (Thu)

#150 Patriotism Leads to Rare Earth Discovery

July 17, 2012 Massive rare earth mud has been found at the seabed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone around the easternmost Japanese island of Minami-Torishima, some 1,800 kilometers from Japan’s H...

Jul 12, 2012 (Thu)

#149 “Modern Witch Hunting” and “A Study on Atmosphere”

July 9, 2012 “If you want to make a good magazine, you should review contents of past issues,” Shimpei Ikejima, reputed as an excellent editor for monthly Bungeishunju Magazine, told us at Bungeish...

Jul 05, 2012 (Thu)

#148 Okinawa Newspapers’ Biased Reports on Osprey

July 2, 2012 Okinawa’s two major newspapers – the Ryukyu Shimpo and Okinawa Times – have become propaganda newspapers failing to provide whole pictures of developments. Their traditional reports on...

Jun 28, 2012 (Thu)

#147 TPP Controversy Testing Conservatism

June 25, 2012 Ahead of Japan, Canada and Mexico have been allowed to participate in negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. The two countries offered to join the TPP tal...

Jun 21, 2012 (Thu)

#146 Noda Should Dissolve Lower House for General Election

June 18, 2012 Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda left Tokyo in the evening of June 17 for a Group of 20 summit meeting in Mexico, after seeing his ruling Democratic Party of Japan and two major oppositi...

Jun 18, 2012 (Mon)

#145 “Asian Concert” to Counter China

June 11, 2012 The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals and India’s Vivekananda International Foundation, known as the VIF, held discussions in Tokyo on June 3 and 4 as part of their joint stud...

Jun 08, 2012 (Fri)

#144 Limitations of Japan’s Postwar Regime Surfacing at Symposium

June 4, 2012 An international symposium is to be held on June 4 in Tokyo to discuss how best to expand security cooperation between Japan and India, the two major Asian democracies exposed to China...

Jun 01, 2012 (Fri)

#143 Japan Should Organize Rebuttal to Comfort Women Allegation

May 28, 2012 The comfort woman issue has surged again since last year. This is the fourth time for the issue to surge. In the first incident, the Asahi Shimbun in 1991 erroneously reported traded K...

May 25, 2012 (Fri)

#142 Clear Principles Required for Japan-U.S. Partnership

May 21, 2012 I visited Washington, D.C. from May 6 through 13 as a member of a delegation from parliamentary and private organizations supporting Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea. As susp...