January 17, 2022 Last October, the Taiwanese defense minister indicated China could be ready to mount a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025. Last June, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander told the S...
【#872】Looming Global Comeback to Nuclear Energy
January 11, 2022 More than 40 countries agreed to phase out coal power generation at the 26th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP26, in Glasg...
【#871】Military Significance of Japan-U.S. 2+2 and Japan-Australia RAA
January 11, 2022 On January 7, Japanese and U.S. foreign and defense ministers held their so-called two-plus-two meeting on an online basis. On January 6, Japan and Australia signed a Reciprocal A...
【#870】Japan Required to Build Offensive Capabilities
January 11, 2022 A ballistic missile fired by North Korea on January 5 was a new type that flew 500 kilometers at an altitude of up to 50 kilometers and at more than five times the speed of sound,...
【#869】Kishida Should Fulfill His Responsibility for Contributing to World
January 11, 2022 Japan in 2022 is in the midst of crises. In the drastically changing world, the prime minister of Japan has a historic mission. His responsibility is to contribute to creating a b...
【#868】Welcoming Panel Report Suggesting Ways to Preserve Male Imperial Line in Japan
December 27, 2021 A government panel of experts on stable imperial succession in Japan and other relevant issues submitted its final report to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on December 22. Epoch...
【#867】Key Points of Japanese and U.S. Defense Budgets
December 27, 2021 On December 27, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022 into law, outlining the year’s defense budget. On December 24, the Japanese...
【#866】Will America Decline or Come Back?
December 27, 2021 There may be three major trends towards the New Year in the international situation. First, the United Nations and other international organizations established just after World ...
【#865】Respecting Human Rights While Shelving Anti-China Resolution?
December 20, 2021 Japan’s National Diet has again shelved a resolution condemning the Chinese government for human rights abuse in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region and other areas as Prime Mi...
【#864】On Passing Away of Shigeo Iizuka, Leader of Abductees’ Families
December 20, 2021 On December 18, Shigeo Iizuka, a former representative of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnaped by North Korea, died at the age of 83. He was the eldest brother of ...