【#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...
【#1080】Japan Should Remove China’s Illegal Buoys
October 16, 2023 The most important measure for Japan’s maritime security is to demonstrate its firm will to defend territory, territorial waters and airspace. China’s intrusion into the waters...
【#1079】Kishida May Be Disqualified as National Leader
October 16, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who fails to call terrorism “terrorism” may be disqualified as a national leader. There was a X (formerly Twitter) post by Kishida that led me to thin...
【#1078】We Don’t Need a Useless Science Council
October 10, 2023 On October 2, the certificates of appointment for new members of the Science Council of Japan were presented at the Prime Minister’s Office, inaugurating a new SCJ leadership head...
【#1077】Kishida Should Exert Leadership in Cutting Consumption Tax
October 10, 2023 A parliamentary group advocating aggressive fiscal policy, which comprises young lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will soon propose a temporary consumption tax cu...
October 10, 2023 “I have squarely faced challenges one by one, made decisions, and taken actions in the past two years,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on October 3, a day before the ...
【#1075】U.S. Political Chaos Plunging Allies into Insecurity
October 10, 2023 The unprecedented chaos in the U.S. Congress is encouraging the dictatorships of Russia and China that dream of reviving an empire. The U.S. House of Representatives excluded aid ...
【#1074】Beware Potential Change in U.S. Policy on Ukraine
October 2, 2023 Just before fiscal 2023 ended at midnight on September 30, the U.S. Congress passed a stopgap budget through mid-November, which President Joe Biden immediately signed into law. Mo...
【#1073】Get Angry with Dysfunctional U.N. Security Council
September 25, 2023 Japan is the third largest contributor to the United Nations after the United States and China. Russia is not even among the Top 10 contributors. Nevertheless, the U.N. is compl...
【#1072】Welcoming Foreign Minister Kamikawa and Defense Minister Kihara
September 19, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s newly reshuffled cabinet has a lineup that lacks freshness due to the selection of many hopefuls on a “waiting list” for cabinet ministers recomme...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Takashi Arimoto
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Masahiko Hosokawa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Yujiro Oiwa
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Kunio Orita
Katsuhiko Takaike
Etsuro Honda
Akira Momochi
Yoshihiko Yamada
Akio Yaita
Seiji Kurosawa
Brahma Chellaney
Koichi Endo
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Michio Ezaki
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Sumihiko Kawamura
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Maki Nakagawa
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Hong Hyung
Andrii Gurenko
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Katsutoshi Kawano
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Kazuto Suzuki
Koichi Mera
Akihisa Nagashima
Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
Hirotaka Watanabe
Akinaka Senzaki
Kevin Maher
Yang Yi
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Hiroshi Ito
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Satoshi Hirano
Lee Woo Young
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
