【#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 ...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
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