【#1383】Japan’s Parliament Must Confront Its “Galapagos Politics”
June 29, 2026 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has decided not to attend a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit to be held in Turkey in July. The reported reason for the decision is tha...
【#1382】Motor Technology behind Detention of Japanese Nationals in China
June 29, 2026 Two Japanese nationals have been detained by authorities in China since May, it was learned on June 24. The employees of Fuji Electric Co. are believed to be suspected of smuggling g...
【#1381】U.S. Changes Provide Opportunity for Japan
June 23, 2026 The memorandum of understanding on the U.S.-Iran ceasefire underscored the United States’ political defeat. Despite overwhelming Iran with unparalleled military power, the Wall Stree...
【#1380】Government Should Ask BOJ to Be Consistent with National Policy
June 22, 2026 On June 16, the Bank of Japan raised its policy interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 1%, the highest level in 31 years, and is poised to raise rates further. If interest rate h...
【#1379】Don’t Let U.S. Withdraw from Asia
June 22, 2026 The Iran War, for which a 60-day ceasefire agreement has been reached for the time being, has laid bare the strategic contradictions of the U.S. Trump administration. While giving pr...
【#1378】For What Purpose Did Xi Visit Pyongyang?
June 15, 2026 On June 8-9, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The visit came as their interests aligned to some extent. Kim wanted a Chinese mi...
【#1377】Japan’s Proactive Security Strategy Presented at Shangri-La Dialogue
June 8, 2026 The first significance of this year’s Asia Security Summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue, in late May was that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth emphasized that “America is a Pacific ...
【#1376】Serious Question about Expected BOJ Rate Hike
June 1, 2026 The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its policy interest rate at its monetary policy meeting scheduled for June 15-16. Although the rate hike is reportedly designed to respond to ri...
June 1, 2026 Since the dismissal of the commander and political commissar of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force in 2023, media reports have suggested a potential decline in its operational ...
【#1374】Can Japan Protect Its People While Shelving Nuclear Discussions?
June 1, 2026 On May 25, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on Security approved a draft proposal for updating the Japanese government’s three security-related documents late...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Takashi Arimoto
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Masahiko Hosokawa
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
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Maki Nakagawa
Etsuro Honda
Yujiro Oiwa
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Katsuhiko Takaike
Michio Ezaki
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Yoshihiko Yamada
Seiji Kurosawa
Koichi Endo
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Nobuko Araki
Yang Haiying
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Hiroshi Kimura
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
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Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Satoshi Hirano
Lee Woo Young
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Yasuyuki Takai
Nobuyuki Sato
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
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
Hong Hyung
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Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
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