【#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...
【#1071】Symposium Held in Seoul to Deny Coercion of Comfort Women
September 11, 2023 On September 5, scholars and activists from Japan and South Korea who reject the theory of the coercive recruitment of comfort women as sex slaves held a joint symposium in Seou...
【#1070】Draft Emergency Clauses to Amend Constitution at Autumn Diet Session
September 11, 2023 Since the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party two years ago, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has reiterated his pledge to amend the constitution during his...
September 11, 2023 Japan’s National Security Strategy, approved by the cabinet in December last year, can be regarded as an excellent one because it emphasizes the perspective of securing national...
【#1068】A Fear of Absorption May Be Behind North’s Reference to “ROK”
September 4, 2023 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea by its official name, the Republic of Korea, for the first time. North Korea regards the South as a colony of the United St...
【#1067】Japan Without Diplomatic Strategy to Counter China’s Seafood Embargo
September 4, 2023 Japan lacks diplomatic strategy to counter China’s embargo on Japanese seafood. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, though giving priority to prompt measures to support fishermen, has ...
【#1066】Japan Should Move to Arms Aid to Ukraine
August 28, 2023 Japan’s self-imposed restrictions, such as the former Three Principles on Arms Exports and their revised version known as Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Tech...
【#1065】Take Strategic Actions to Counter China’s Embargo on Japanese Seafood
August 28, 2023 China has announced an import ban on seafood from Japan. One month ago, I proposed Japan to take countermeasures to China’s blanket inspections of Japanese seafood in this Speaking...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Takashi Arimoto
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Masahiko Hosokawa
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Yujiro Oiwa
Etsuro Honda
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Kunio Orita
Katsuhiko Takaike
Akira Momochi
Yoshihiko Yamada
Akio Yaita
Seiji Kurosawa
Maki Nakagawa
Brahma Chellaney
Michio Ezaki
Koichi Endo
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Yang Haiying
Hiroshi Kimura
Sumihiko Kawamura
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Lee Woo Young
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
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
