【#947】Kishida Should Instruct to Accelerate Nuclear Plant Screening
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...
【#946】Japan Should Restructure Comprehensive National Energy Strategy
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...
【#945】Koreans Called for Removing Comfort Woman Statue in Germany
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...
【#944】Japan Should Fundamentally Reform Crisis Management System
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...
【#943】We Are Determined to Amend Constitution
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...
【#942】Kishida on Mission to Take over Wish of Abe
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...
【#941】We Do Not Need Criticism-only Oppositions
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...
【#940】Japan Should Endeavor to Remain in Sakhalin 2 Project
July 11, 2022 On June 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to transfer the operation of the Sakhalin 2 oil and gas development project to a new company to be set up by the Russian ...
【#939】Overemphasis on Renewables behind Electricity Shortage in Japan
July 4, 2022 On scorching hot days in late June with temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius, the Japanese government issued a tight power supply advisory for the service area of Tokyo Electric Power...
【#938】West Passed Point of No Return in New Cold War
July 4, 2022 In a historic development, European and Indo-Pacific democracies have joined hands in a manner to encircle Eurasian autocracies. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has adopted its...