【#810】Surname System Debate Failing to Get to People’s Heart
June 29, 2021 On August 1, 1945, Japan’s leading folklorist Kunio Yanagita was informed by a friend of his that the war would end soon. Yanagita, who had passed his 70th birthday, determined that ...
【#809】Concerned about Japan’s Cybersecurity Arrangements
June 28, 2021 A June 24 media report says that Japan’s National Police Agency will create a cybersecurity bureau and a cyber investigation team under the bureau in the next fiscal year to address ...
【#808】Over-40-year-old Reactors Are As Good As New
June 28, 2021 The 44-year-old Unit 3 reactor of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Mihama Nuclear Power Station (in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture) has recently restarted for the first time in 10 years. The As...
【#807】Same-Surname System Is Not Discrimination against Women
June 28, 2021 On June 23, Japan’s Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Code’s Article 750 stipulating "a husband and wife shall adopt the surname of the husband or wife in accordance with that which...
【#806】Taishan Gas Leak Shows China’s Cover-up Habitude
June 21, 2021 Radioactive substances have recently leaked from the Unit 1 reactor of the Taishan nuclear power station in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The reactor is a 1.65 million-...
【#805】Mineral Resources Constraints on Renewable Energy Promotion
June 21, 2021 The International Energy Agency in a report released in May warned that the promotion of renewable energy to counter global warming would massively boost demand for mineral resources...
【#804】National Security Matters Separate from Corporate Governance Regarding Toshiba
June 21, 2021 An outside investigation report on Toshiba Corp. recently came out, concluding that the company unfairly managed its general shareholders’ meeting last year. As requested by Toshiba,...
【#803】Japan Following Suit of Neville Chamberlain
June 21, 2021 Japanese lawmakers gave up on adopting a resolution condemning China for human rights abuse at this year’s ordinary session of the parliament called National Diet that ended last wee...
【#802】Epoch-making Ruling on Wartime Korean Workers in Japan
June 14, 2021 On June 7, the Seoul Central District Court made a just ruling on wartime Korean workers in Japan. It turned down a lawsuit in which 85 plaintiffs including former such workers sough...
【#801】Far Weaker Japan-U.S. Ties than U.K.-U.S. Relationship
June 14, 2021 Amid what U.S. President Joe Biden terms a confrontation between democracies and autocracies, the democratic camp has finally begun to take shape under the U.S. leadership after rema...
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