【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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 ...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#1197】Prime Minister Ishiba Should Give Up on U.S. Visit
November 11, 2024 Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba talked with Donald Trump over phone for 5 minutes, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for 12 minutes, and French President Emmanuel Macro...
【#1196】Switch to Tax Cut-Oriented Fiscal Policy as Urged by Voters
November 5, 2024 The ruling coalition’s crushing defeat in the October 27 House of Representatives election provided an opportunity to encourage the correction of Japan’s fiscal policy biased towa...