【#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...
【#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...