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Speaking out

August 1, 2022   The Science Council of Japan made public a stance that in effect tolerates studies on dual-use advanced scientific technologies that are available for both military and civilian pur...

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August 1, 2022   The United States and China have been jockeying over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned visit to Taiwan. In a two-hour call with U.S. President Joe Biden on July 28, Chinese ...

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July 25, 2022   How would Japan-South Korea relations be in the wake of the recent South Korean government change? I would like to consider the question while reviewing the history of bilateral rela...

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July 25, 2022   Japan’s electricity supply-demand balance will tighten towards the coming winter. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida issued an instruction for restarting up to nine nuc...

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July 25, 2022   Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has led the world to face the most serious energy crisis since the oil shock in the 1970s. Coupled with fuel and food price spikes, the wor...

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July 19, 2022   A group of South Koreans including me visited Berlin in late June to call for removing a statue of a wartime comfort woman for the Imperial Japanese Army erected there by an organiza...

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July 19, 2022   The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has prompted Japan to revisit its crisis management as well as its VIP protection arrangements. Japan, set to host an annual sum...

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July 19, 2022   After the first Abe cabinet, followed by the Fukuda and Aso cabinets, the Democratic Party of Japan took government from the Liberal Democratic Party through a House of Representativ...

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July 11, 2022   Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated. Voters’ insecurity over the loss of the strongest leader in Japan, their hatred and anger against the terror attack and the...

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July 11, 2022   The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won a clear victory in Japan’s triennial House of Councilors election on July 10, putting the raison d’etre of opposition parties into question. T...

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