【#1090】Reconsider How to Select Supreme Court Judges
November 6, 2023 As not a few Supreme Court rulings including a recent one on gender change are taken as deviating from public awareness, doubts about the qualifications and awareness of Supreme C...
【#1089】Ueda-led BOJ Should Not Be Deluded by Market
November 6, 2023 The Bank of Japan (BOJ) under Governor Kazuo Ueda is losing ground to market speculators, mainly foreign investors. If the central bank continues to follow the market, the yen’s r...
【#1088】Two Meanings of Ruling on “Comfort Women of the Empire”
October 30, 2023 On October 26, the South Korean Supreme Court reversed a second trial ruling that had fined Park Yu Ha, a professor emeritus at Sejong University, 10 million won (about $7,400) in...
【#1087】The Problem Is that Gender Can Be Changed by Surgery
October 30, 2023 On October 25, the Japanese Supreme Court denied the constitutionality of a law that requires reproductive glands (testes or ovaries as internal genitalia) to be defunctionalized ...
【#1086】Does Kishida Have a Passion?
October 30, 2023 Is this the beginning of the end of the Kishida administration? Hiroshige Seko, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Councillors, has openly qu...
October 30, 2023 A draft of new economic measures that the Japanese government will compile soon includes “strengthening supply capacity” and “returning surplus to the people” as its pillars. The ...
【#1084】Government Should Do Its Best to Rescue Japanese Arrested in China
October 23, 2023 A male executive in his 50s at a major Japanese pharmaceutical company who had been detained by Chinese authorities in Beijing since March on suspicion of “espionage” was formally...
【#1083】Let Us Vitalize Discussions on Nuclear Arms
October 23, 2023 On October 19, the U.S. Department of Defense released its annual report of Military and Security Developments involving the Peoples Republic of China. The media focused on its es...
【#1082】Kishida Conveys No Sense of Crisis
October 23, 2023 I think it is necessary to correctly understand that this is a case where Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that effectively controls the Gaza Strip, carried out a la...
【#1081】Why Now Is Time to Dissolve Unification Church?
October 16, 2023 The Japanese government has requested the Tokyo District Court to order the dissolution of the former Unification Church. In this column dated October 31, 2022, I as an evangelica...