【#1303】Japan Should Formulate a National Intelligence Strategy
October 27, 2025 On October 21, when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi gave written instructions to cabinet ministers upon the inauguration of the new cabinet, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara re...
【#1302】Takaichi Should Stop Rapid Growth in Permanent Foreign Residents
October 20, 2025 Statistics on foreign residents in Japan as of the end of June were released. The number hit a record high of 3,956,619, up 187,642 from the end of last year. If the uptrend is su...
【#1301】Pursue “Semiconductor Alliance” to Enhance Deterrence
October 20, 2025 It has long been said that “semiconductors are the oil of the 21st century.” It is clear that modern society cannot function without semiconductors, and any disruption in their su...
【#1300】Takaichi Should Aim to Revise Japan-U.S. Investment Agreement
October 20, 2025 Sanae Takaichi, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was designated as Japan’s prime minister at an extraordinary Diet session on October 21. She is tasked with enhan...
【#1299】Solar Panels Causing Heat Island Phenomenon
October 15, 2025 Since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident caused by devastating tsunami tidal waves on March 11, 2011, countries around the world have promoted a nuclear phase-ou...
【#1298】What Should Be Inherited Is Evolved Abenomics
October 15, 2025 Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has stated that she will inherit Abenomics as the basic concept of economic policy. In response, c...
【#1297】Criticizing Ishiba’s Reflection on 80th Anniversary of War’s End
October 15, 2025 On October 10, Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at a press conference issued his “reflection” on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Upon reading it, I was struc...
【#1296】View Komeito’s Coalition Exit as an Opportunity
October 15, 2025 The Komeito party notified the Liberal Democratic Party of its decision to dissolve its ruling coalition with the LDP at their leaders’ meeting on October 10, putting an end to th...
【#1295】Hopes for New LDP Leader Takaichi
October 6, 2025 Sanae Takaichi has been elected as the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Concerns among LDP rank and file that the raison d’etre of the LDP as a conservative part...
【#1294】New Leader Should Have Capabilities to Revitalize Japan
September 29, 2025 In campaigns for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership election on October 4, five candidates are promising measures to counter rising prices and wage increases. Unle...
Tsutomu Nishioka
Tadae Takubo
Fumio Ota
Takashi Arimoto
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yasushi Tomiyama
Yoichi Shimada
Masahiko Hosokawa
Hiroshi Yuasa
Tadashi Narabayashi
Hideo Tamura
Kiyofumi Iwata
Kunio Orita
Etsuro Honda
Yujiro Oiwa
Maki Nakagawa
Shiro Takahashi
Hironobu Ishikawa
Katsuhiko Takaike
Akira Momochi
Yoshihiko Yamada
Akio Yaita
Michio Ezaki
Seiji Kurosawa
Koichi Endo
Brahma Chellaney
Nobuko Araki
James Auer
Yang Haiying
Sumihiko Kawamura
Hiroshi Kimura
Jason Morgan
Arvind Gupta
Kenro Nagoshi
Takeshi Kudo
Osamu Nishi
Koko Kato
Tadashi Saito
Shohei Umezawa
Tadashi Ito
Satoshi Hirano
Lee Woo Young
Taro Yayama
Koh Sekai
Koji Okamoto
Tsutomu Toichi
Hideaki Karaki
Toshu Noguchi
Kichinosuke Ihara
Hisashi Matsumoto
Nobuyuki Sato
Sukehiro Hirakawa
Yumiko Nishimoto
Rikiwo Shikama
Eriko Yamatani
Koichi Furusho
Mio Sugita
Rupakjyoti Borah
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
Yasuyuki Takai
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
