Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

May 01, 2012 (Tue)

#139 Amend Constitution in Pursuit of Peace

May 1, 2012 As Japan observes the 60th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, debate is growing on its constitution. The question each Japanese citizen must answer is why Japan has failed e...

Apr 25, 2012 (Wed)

#138 Let’s Pay Tax to Tokyo to Support Senkaku Purchase

April 23, 2012 The Liberal Democratic Party’s Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara has postponed his China visit. As his father, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, unveiled the Tokyo metropolitan ...

Apr 20, 2012 (Fri)

#137 Don’t Help Kim Jong-un’s “Military First” Regime

April 16, 2012 New regime is unstable North Korea held a military parade on April 15 to celebrate the centennial birthday of Kim Il-sung, displaying what seemed to be an intercontinental ballist...

Apr 13, 2012 (Fri)

#136 Japanese Lawmakers Make First Public Protest against China

April 9, 2012 As chair of a committee to invite Dr. Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile, to Japan, I asked him to attend a symposiu...

Apr 10, 2012 (Tue)

#135 Deep Contempt for Hatoyama Politics

April 2, 2012 For about 10 days in late March, I visited Washington for an exchange of opinions with experts on North Korea and China as well as foreign policy advisers to leading lawmakers. The bi...

Mar 29, 2012 (Thu)

#134 Questioning Japan’s Attitude toward China on Tibetan Leader’s Visit

March 26, 2012 The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals will sponsor a seminar on April 3 to mark a visit to Japan by Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration, ...

Mar 22, 2012 (Thu)

#133 Linking Consumption Tax Hike to Economic Recovery

March 19, 2012 Fiscal consolidation or economic recovery? The unfortunate dichotomy between the two has led Japan to delay a decision. Regarding the government-planned “comprehensive reform of soci...

Mar 12, 2012 (Mon)

#132 Old Wine in New Bottles

March 12, 2012 When politicians are faced with difficult and unpopular decisions they sometimes choose to avoid taking a stand by purporting to stake out new positions which, in reality, are no cha...

Mar 09, 2012 (Fri)

#131 Japan-US-ROK Solidarity Urged to Respond to Lawmaker’s Protest

March 5, 2012 As the United States and North Korea announced their agreement on the North’s nuclear issue on February 29, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed it as “a modest first step...

Mar 01, 2012 (Thu)

#130 Noda Effectively Declares Defeat by Tolerating Unlawfulness

February 27, 2012 Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made a wrong decision again. As a government advisory panel failed to give recommendations on the revised demarcation of electorates for the House...