【#1027】Commendable Avoidance of Making New Apology to South Korea
March 20, 2023 When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited Japan last week, I was in South Korea, where media reported the president as having made a major concession over the issue of warti...
【#1026】Don’t Be Deceived by China Acting as Goodwill Mediator
March 20, 2023 Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Russia this week with a plan to end Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Earlier this month, China successfully mediated an agreement bet...
【#1025】Biden’s Basic Stance and Ability to Deliver Are Questionable
March 13, 2023 On March 10, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced in Beijing an agreement brokered by China to restore diplomatic relations. This development may symbolize the weakness of the U.S. admin...
【#1024】Prioritize Rules and Exclude Unprincipled Concession to South Korea
March 13, 2023 Japan-South Korea relations are heading toward normalization after Seoul announced a solution to the issue of wartime Korean workers in Japan. It is important to take advantage of t...
【#1023】Hoping New BOJ Governor Retains Price Stability Target
March 13, 2023 The Bank of Japan in early April will launch a new leadership including economist Kazuo Ueda as governor, former Financial Services Agency Commissioner Ryozo Himino and BOJ Executiv...
【#1022】Bottlenecks to Boosting Birthrates
March 13, 2023 The number of births in Japan in 2022 slipped below 800,000 for the first time since records began in 1899 to 799,728, according to a preliminary report by the Ministry of Health, L...
【#1021】Solution Ignoring Historical Truth Won’t Last Long
March 8, 2023 A solution to the issue of wartime Korean workers in Japan, announced by South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol government on March 6, can be regarded as a temporary measure to avoid the worst ...
March 6, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol positioned Japan as a “partner” in his address at a ceremony on March 1 to commemorate the March 1 Independence Movement against Japanese rule. B...
【#1019】Kishida Should Give Instructions for Supporting Ukraine
March 6, 2023 Russian forces have made missile attacks on power stations and transmission lines in Ukraine almost daily this winter, continuing to destroy Ukrainian electricity infrastructure. Jap...
【#1018】Upper House’s Worth Questioned Due to Hayashi’s Absence from G20
March 6, 2023 The raison d'etre of Japan’s House of Councilors is fundamentally called into question as Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi was absent from a meeting of Group of 20 foreign minister...
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
Maki Nakagawa
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
