【#835】Discussions on Children’s Agency Lack Logic of Education
September 27, 2021 The ruling Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is preparing for establishing a Children’s Agency and a basic children law. A panel of experts created by the government will compil...
【#834】Guessing About Kono’s Intimidating Remarks
September 27, 2021 In intimidating remarks to a senior official at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy as reported by Weekly Bunshun magazine, administrative reform minister Taro Kono loud...
【#833】Next Japanese PM Should Seek Further Evolution of Quad
September 27, 2021 Japan, the United States, Australia and India held their first-ever face-to-face leaders’ summit for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or the Quad, in Washington on September...
【#832】Japan’s Wisdom to Sort Applications to Join CPTPP
September 27, 2021 Can the 11 member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) reject the membership application of China that is rapidly closi...
【#831】How to Respond to China’s Application to Join CPTPP?
September 21, 2021 China has officially applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP). The action had been expected since Chinese President Xi J...
【#830】Asking LDP Members Again if a Prime Minister Kono Would Be Okay
September 21, 2021 Taro Kono is reportedly leading the other three candidates for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election on September 29. After hearing his remarks at press co...
【#829】Japan Left Out of Nuke Sub Pact Deal Due to Two Allergies
September 21, 2021 On September 15, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia announced a new security framework focusing on U.S. and U.K. technological cooperation in Australia’s buildi...
【#828】Kono Has Yet to Seal Off Nuclear Phaseout
September 14, 2021 “I would restart and use nuclear power plants that can be used after confirming their safety,” Taro Kono told a news conference on September 10 when he announced his candidacy f...
【#827】Assessing LDP Presidential Candidates from National Security Viewpoint
September 13, 2021 On September 10, Taro Kono declared his candidacy for ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s president, joining Fumio Kishida and Sanae Takaichi. In the unprecedentedly severe nation...
【#826】Are LDP Presidential Candidates Ready to Confront China?
September 13, 2021 Candidates for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election on September 29 are asked if they are ready to address the deterioration of security environment surro...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Takashi Arimoto
Yoichi Shimada
Hiroshi Yuasa
Masahiko Hosokawa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Yujiro Oiwa
Shiro Takahashi
Hironobu Ishikawa
Kiyofumi Iwata
Akira Momochi
Kunio Orita
Akio Yaita
Yoshihiko Yamada
Katsuhiko Takaike
Etsuro Honda
Koichi Endo
Seiji Kurosawa
Brahma Chellaney
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Michio Ezaki
Sumihiko Kawamura
Hiroshi Kimura
Yang Haiying
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Tadashi Ito
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Koko Kato
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
Lee Woo Young
Seiichi Okutomi
Saburo Tsukamoto
Yasuo Naito
Satoshi Sakakibara
Yen-Hung Lin
Sanae Takaichi
Haruhisa Nakagawa
Norihide Miyoshi
Syunichi Akasofu
Ryoichi Hamamoto
Hong Hyung
Andrii Gurenko
Ronald Morse
Kazuhiko Inoue
Keiichi Nakagawa
Masamori Sase
Katsutoshi Kawano
Chung Dae Kyun
Toshio Watanabe
Katsuya Tsukamoto
Kazuto Suzuki
