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Speaking out

Dec 18, 2024 (Wed)

【#1207】China Conducts Practical Exercises for Taiwan Contingency

December 16, 2024 　 China has apparently conducted large-scale military exercises around Taiwan and in the western Pacific. Although there has been no official announcement by China so far, China Co...

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Dec 12, 2024 (Thu)

【#1206】Yoon’s Self-Destructing Action Leaves Economic Security Fluid

December 9, 2024 　 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s shocking declaration of martial law and its failure have jolted Japan, too. While the South Korean National Assembly has failed to pass an i...

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Dec 10, 2024 (Tue)

【#1205】Incompetent President Paving Way to Anti-Japanese Regime

December 9, 2024 　 “Conservatives in South Korea must fall to the ground. Only then can they regenerate,” said South Korean conservative leader Cho Gab Je in the wake of chaos over President Yoon Su...

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Dec 05, 2024 (Thu)

【#1204】Is China’s Visa Exemption Achievement at Ishiba’s Meeting with Xi?

December 2, 2024 　 On November 30, the Chinese government resumed short-term visa exemption for Japan. The Japanese government welcomed the move as indicating China’s positive stance toward improvin...

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Dec 05, 2024 (Thu)

【#1203】South Korea Must Overcome View of Wartime Workers as Slaves

December 2, 2024 　 On November 24, a memorial service for workers who died at the Sado Island Gold Mines, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, took place at the site in the central Japan prefectur...

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Dec 05, 2024 (Thu)

【#1202】North Korean General Killed in Ukraine War

December 2, 2024 　 On November 20, about 500 North Korean troops, including a general, were killed in an attack by Ukrainian forces occupying part of the western Russian region of Kursk, according t...

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Nov 26, 2024 (Tue)

【#1201】Ishiba’s Precarious Diplomatic Debut

November 25, 2024 　 The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Group of 20 (G20) summit meetings had been supposed to be a showcase for new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s diplomatic ...

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Nov 21, 2024 (Thu)

【#1200】Appreciate Trump’s Promised High Tariffs on Chinese Goods

November 18, 2024 　 While a high tariff policy that the second U.S. Trump administration is expected to introduce after its inauguration next January has been criticized as being likely to trigger g...

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Nov 21, 2024 (Thu)

【#1199】Make Trump’s Victory an Opportunity to Resolve Abduction Issue

November 18, 2024 　 The advent of the second Trump administration in the United States could be a chance for Japan to rescue abductees in North Korea. During his first presidential term, Donald T...

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Nov 13, 2024 (Wed)

【#1198】China Renews Missiles Aimed at Japan

November 11, 2024 　 On October 17, Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, who doubles as president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected a brigade of the People’s...

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