【#1017】Japan Should Look at Looming North Korean Nuclear Threats
February 27, 2023 Military tensions over nuclear weapons are rapidly growing on the Korean Peninsula, although such tensions are scarcely reported in Japan. As North Korea continues military drill...
【#1016】Leader Failing to Visit Kyiv Is Not Qualified to Discuss Peace
February 27, 2023 After U.S. President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Kyiv in February, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is the only Group of Seven leader who has...
【#1015】Protect Cultural Assets to Prevent South Korean Thefts
February 20, 2023 On February 1, South Korea’s Daejeon High Court reversed a lower court ruling, rejecting a South Korean temple’s ownership of a Buddhist statue that had been stolen from a Japane...
【#1014】Risky Unlimited Ban on LGBT Discrimination
February 20, 2023 There is a claim that Japan is the only G7 (Group of Seven) member lacking a legal ban on discrimination against LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people. This claim ...
【#1013】Success of Ueda’s BOJ to Depend on Fiscal Policy
February 13, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has proposed to the National Diet the appointment of economist Kazuo Ueda as new Bank of Japan governor to succeed Haruhiko Kuroda. The government an...
【#1012】Misgivings Felt about Biden’s State of Union Address
February 13, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on February 7 provided misgivings to Japan that shares the Indo-Pacific strategy with the United States. Firstly, while talk...
【#1011】JCP Proves Different by Expelling Dissident Member
February 13, 2023 The Japanese Communist Party is shaking at an estimated intensity of 3 or 4 in the Japanese seismic scale of 0-7. We cannot take our eyes off the JCP plagued with aftershocks. Th...
【#1010】Don’t Distort Export Control Principle in Fear of China’s Reaction
February 9, 2023 I received many inquiries on my suggestion in this column on February 6 that Japan should identify China as the target of semiconductor export restrictions being planned under int...
【#1009】Japan Required to Prepare Law to Tackle Foreign Balloon Intrusion
February 6, 2023 A U.S. Air Force F-22 fighter shot down a Chinese reconnaissance balloon that flew across the continental United States. Japan has so far failed to enact any law to tackle foreign...
【#1008】On-the-Spot Survey Required to Protect Ecosystems on Senkakus
February 6, 2023 Facing the danger of Chinese invasion, Japan’s Senkaku Islands are kept under heavy guard by the Japan Coast Guard. However, the Japanese government does not allow anyone other th...
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Hidetake Sawa
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