【#927】Brzezinski’s Respectable Foresight
June 13, 2022 Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, authored a book titled “The Grand Chessboard” 25 years ago. French demographer Emmanuel T...
【#926】Kishida Should Completely Break MOF’s Spell
June 6, 2022 Japanese government under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has removed a goal of achieving a primary balance surplus in fiscal 2025 from the “Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Manage...
【#925】Defense Enhancement within 5 Years Must be Supported by Budget
June 6, 2022 While Germany had decided to increase its defense spending to more than 2% of its gross domestic product in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the Japanese government ha...
【#924】Quad and IPEF Signaling New International Economic Order
May 30, 2022 A Japan-U.S. summit, the launching of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and a Japan-U.S.-Australia-India Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) summit in late May were signif...
【#923】Quad Getting Closer to Security Cooperation through Maritime Watch
May 30, 2022 The U.S. Biden administration’s strategic goal is to prevent the 21st century from becoming an age of autocratic domination. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has prompted th...
【#922】Japan Should Increase Defense Spending to German Level at Least
May 24, 2022 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on May 23 stated his determination to fundamentally reinforce Japan’s defense capability and secure “s...
【#921】How New Economic Framework Will Actually Benefit Asia
May 23, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) during his visit to Japan. Following talks with relevant countries since the initiative was...
【#920】Opposition to a Hiroshima G7 Summit
May 16, 2022 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is entering final stage of planning to hold an annual summit of the Group of Seven industrial democracies in Hiroshima City next year. He claims that atom...
【#919】Biden Is Partially Responsible for Japan’s Nuclear Insecurity
May 16, 2022 As Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons since its aggression against Ukraine, insecurity in Japan about nuclear attacks has led to growing calls for “nuclear sharing” with the...
【#918】Russia Sanctions Require Energy Security Perspective
May 16, 2022 The Group of Seven industrial democracies agreed in principle on an embargo on Russian oil at their virtual summit on May 8. Japan has decided that it has no choice but to give priori...
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Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Takashi Arimoto
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Masahiko Hosokawa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Yujiro Oiwa
Hironobu Ishikawa
Shiro Takahashi
Kunio Orita
Katsuhiko Takaike
Etsuro Honda
Akira Momochi
Yoshihiko Yamada
Akio Yaita
Seiji Kurosawa
Brahma Chellaney
Koichi Endo
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Michio Ezaki
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Sumihiko Kawamura
Maki Nakagawa
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Lee Woo Young
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Hong Hyung
Andrii Gurenko
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Katsutoshi Kawano
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Kazuto Suzuki
Koichi Mera
Akihisa Nagashima
Miki Kase
Eitaro Ogawa
Hirotaka Watanabe
Akinaka Senzaki
Kevin Maher
Yang Yi
Hidetake Sawa
Satoshi Tomisaka
Nobukatsu Fujioka
Masanori Kondo
Hiroshi Ito
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
Satoshi Hirano
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
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