【#987】Make No Easy Concession over Wartime Korean Workers in Japan
November 21, 2022 On November 13, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held his first official meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Phnom Penh. South Korean government officials s...
【#986】Don’t Be Deceived by China’s Smiling Diplomacy
November 21, 2022 In a photo session for the first Japan-China summit in three years that took place in Bangkok on November 17, Chinese President Xi Jinping kept smiling when shaking hands with Ja...
【#985】U.S. May Toughen China Policy under House Republican Leadership
November 21, 2022 The Republican Party won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives through midterm elections earlier this month, meaning that Republicans will occupy the House speaker post...
【#984】Tug-of-War over Semiconductor Supply Chains at Summit Talks
November 21, 2022 A series of multilateral summit meetings were held in Asia from November 11, including summit meetings related to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), G20 Bali Summit ...
【#983】What Can Be Learned from DeSantis’s Landslide
November 14, 2022 While Democrats have retained their control over the Senate in the U.S. midterm elections, the general trend in the House has yet to be clear. I therefore would like to focus on ...
【#982】Be Alert to Intensifying Battle for Technology under Xi
November 7, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping has entered his third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. We must pay attention to his report to the Chinese Communist Party con...
【#981】Can We Declare China Is Not a Threat?
November 7, 2022 On November 3, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals held a symposium titled “International Order after Shinzo Abe,” inviting French historical demographer and family anth...
【#980】Unification Church Issue as Seen by a Christian
October 31, 2022 On a personal note, I am a Christian. Among Christian denominations, I belong to an evangelical Protestant believing that authentic words of Gods are written in the New and Old Te...
【#979】Small Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Still Far from Commercialization
October 31, 2022 The Japanese government on September 30 held the first meeting of an expert panel to work out a strategy for the development of a small nuclear fusion reactor that State Minister ...
【#978】Unpersuasive Reasons for Cancelling SLCM-N Development
October 31, 2022 On October 27, the U.S. Department of Defense released the National Defense Strategy (NDS), the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and the Missile Defense Review (MDR). Of them, the NPR...