Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Aug 25, 2021 (Wed)

【#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...

Aug 18, 2021 (Wed)

【#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...

Aug 16, 2021 (Mon)

【#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...

Aug 05, 2021 (Thu)

【#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...

Jul 26, 2021 (Mon)

【#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 ...

Jul 26, 2021 (Mon)

【#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...

Jul 15, 2021 (Thu)

【#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 ...

Jul 14, 2021 (Wed)

【#813】Solar Facilities Should Be Regulated as Toughly as Nuclear Plants

July 12, 2021 　 A mega-solar photovoltaic plant is located near a point where a devastating mudslide originated following torrential rain on July 3 in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. While any relations...

Jul 07, 2021 (Wed)

【#812】PM Suga Should Reconsider Relations with Junior Partner Komeito

July 5, 2021 　 In the July 4 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election that attracted attention as a harbinger of the next general House of Representatives election coming this autumn, the ruling Liberal...

Jul 07, 2021 (Wed)

【#811】Unexpectedly Moderate Speech by Xi

July 5, 2021 　 For stories on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech to a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, Japanese media adopted a passage on Taiwan f...