Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

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...

Nov 04, 2011 (Fri)