【#1041】Can We Rejoice at the “Success” of Hiroshima Summit?
May 29, 2023 Japanese mass media emptily described the Group of Seven Hiroshima summit as having renewed the determination to realize a “world without nuclear weapons” or having reaffirmed “commit...
【#1040】Japan Should Fundamentally Reform Nuclear Regulator
May 22, 2023 The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on May 17 decided not to lift the de facto ban on the operation of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigat...
【#1039】Vision Alone Cannot Accomplish National Defense and Disarmament
May 22, 2023 The Group of Seven leaders at their annual summit in Hiroshima issued their “Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament.” The document includes the “ultimate goal” of realizing a “world ...
【#1038】Is It Bad to Be a Military Power?
May 15, 2023 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appeared on the cover of the May 22-29 issue of Time magazine (Asia edition). The original headline of the online version of the interview articl...
【#1037】U.S. Understands Policy of Leveraging Humanitarian Aid to Rescue Abductees
May 8, 2023 In early May, a delegation from the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, its supporting organization and a supra-partisan parliamentary league on the abduct...
【#1036】Japan Should Learn from S. Korean President’s National Defense Determination
May 1, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited the United States and joined U.S. President Joe Biden to release a Washington Declaration on April 26 advocating strengthened U.S. extended...
【#1035】Japan Should Also Bust Secret Chinese Police Stations
May 1, 2023 Two Chinese American men have recently been arrested for their alleged operation of a "secret police station” in New York City’s Chinatown to monitor Chinese residents in the United St...
【#1034】Japan’s Non-Nuclear Principles Look Absurd after U.S.-South Korea Agreement
May 1, 2023 Given the fact that China, Russia and North Korea are all armed with nuclear weapons, we can conclude that Japan and South Korea are put in a dangerous international environment unexem...
【#1033】Will India become world’s next big power?
April 24, 2023 The world’s largest democracy, India, recently become the world’s fifth-largest economy, after surpassing Britain. Now India is about to overtake China in population size. It will b...
【#1032】Even China’s Peaceful Unification with Taiwan Will Be a Serious Matter for Japan
April 17, 2023 French President Emanuel Macron visited China in early April to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping. On his way back home, he indicated his view that Europe should be neutral to the T...