【#823】LDP Presidential Candidates Should Discuss National Vision
August 30, 2021 We have some questions to ask to candidates for a presidential election of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party that will be officially announced on September 17 for voting on S...
【#822】China Eying Afghan Mineral Resources
August 23, 2021 Afghanistan has massive underground mineral resources. As the U.S. Biden administration has prematurely withdrawn U.S. forces from Afghanistan and allowed the Islamic fundamentalis...
【#821】Japan Should Become Self-Reliant in the Wake of Afghan Defeat
August 23, 2021 The Islamic fundamentalist Taliban group has taken control of Afghanistan for the first time in two decades. The result represents a defeat for Japan as well that has poured as muc...
【#820】Taliban Victory May Change U.S.-China Confrontation Framework
August 23, 2021 What it boils down to is that U.S. military, the most powerful in the world, was defeated in a 20-year war with the Afghan Taliban which is nothing more than one of Islamic fundame...
【#819】Proposing Joint U.S.-Japan Naval Passage Through Taiwan Strait
August 16, 2021 Tensions are rising in the Taiwan Strait as China expands its military activities. From January 1 to August 8 this year, a total of 367 Chinese People’s Liberation Army aircraft in...
【#818】The Fog of Postwar
August 16, 2021 “The fog of war” is a term often used by military veterans to describe the surreal experience of combat. Men who have been in battle speak of a sense of dissociation from their sur...
【#817】Japan Should Turn around Coronavirus Countermeasures
August 2, 2021 Wuhan virus infections are increasing again in Japan. Some critics attribute the increase to the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Given the absence of spectators and the prohibition on conta...
【#816】Japan Should Fight with U.S. as an Ally
July 26, 2021 I worked for the U.S. Department of Defense as a naval officer and a civilian for 25 years, from 1963 to 1988. By chance my time in the government was approximately the same as the ...
【#815】Why Not Call China a Threat?
July 19, 2021 On July 13, Japan’s Ministry of Defense released its annual white paper for 2021. “Chinese military trends have become a matter of grave concern to the region including Japan and the...
【#814】Would Japan Refrain from Export Controls Linked to Human Rights Abuse?
July 12, 2021 Western countries are toughening trade regulations in light of human rights abuse in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. The United States has banned the import of cotton ...
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