【#899】Why Not Discuss Nuclear Weapons?
March 14, 2022 In a television program on October 15, 2006, Shoichi Nakagawa, then chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Policy Research Council, called for carrying out thorough discu...
【#898】Japan Should Not Withdraw from Sakhalin Projects
March 14, 2022 The United States has decided to ban oil and natural gas imports from Russia. The Biden administration responded to U.S. public opinion and Congressional requests, concluding that i...
【#897】S. Korean President-elect Not Ready to Fight Pro-Pyongyang Forces
March 14, 2022 In South Korea’s presidential election on March 9, opposition candidate Yoon Suk Yeol won by a narrow margin of only 0.7 percentage points. Polls before the election showed that Yoo...
【#896】Japan Insensitive to International Security Crisis
March 14, 2022 Where has the time gone when postwar U.S. Presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy hoisted flag of democracy and liberalism to lead the world brilliantly? A...
【#895】Be Prepared for U.S. Revision of “Asia Pivot”
March 7, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated that he would not hesitate to use force to destroy post-Cold War order in Europe. As long as Putin remains Rus...
【#894】Japan Cannot Defend Itself with Three Non-nuclear Principles
March 7, 2022 No country should be allowed to use nuclear arsenal to intimidate others. The role of national leaders should be to establish defensive posture against such intimidation. Regrettably...
【#893】Russia Seeking Sequential Control and Shut Down of Nuclear Power Stations in Ukraine
March 7, 2022 In the early hours of March 4, Russian forces intruded into the Zaporizhhzhya nuclear power plant compound in southern Ukraine and took control of the plant. With six of the 15 nucle...
【#892】Criticizing Biased NYT Article on Sado Gold Mines
February 28, 2022 The New York Times carried an extremely unbalanced article on February 21 about Sado gold mines that the Japanese government recommended as a candidate for World Cultural Heritag...
【#891】Japan Should Abandon Complacency with Peace
February 28, 2022 We Japanese should remember the scene of a country’s national sovereignty being trampled by another country’s use of force. As China is increasing military pressure in Asia, toda...
【#890】Hydro-Nuclear Combo Recommended as Best Option at Diet
February 21, 2022 I was invited by the House of Councillors Research Committee on Natural Resources and Energy to give opinions as an unsworn witness using data on which the Japan Institute for Na...
Tsutomu Nishioka
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
Ryoichi Hamamoto
