【#727】India favours gradual evolution of the Quad
October 19, 2020 The 2nd ministerial meeting of the Quad group of countries hosted by Japan in Tokyo on 6th October 2020 was significant. The Foreign Ministers of India, Australia and the US Sec...
【#726】Science Council of Japan Is Symbol of Postwar Regime
October 12, 2020 What the Science Council of Japan should be has been put into question since Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga refused to appoint six of 105 recommended SCJ member candidates. We mu...
【#725(Special)】Hoping for Quad to Develop into Indo-Pacific Alliance
October 8, 2020 A recent movement towards building a new security framework in the Indo-Pacific by the loose quadrilateral security dialogue among Japan, the United States, Australia and India i...
【#724】Science Council of Japan Should Protect Academic Freedom
October 5, 2020 The Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other Japanese media have criticized the Suga administration’s refusal to appoint six of 105 candidates recommended by the Science Council of Japa...
【#723(Special)】Tibet in Danger of Becoming Another Xinjiang
September 28, 2020 Internment camps in East Turkestan (China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region) and protests to compulsory Chinese language education in Southern Mongolia (the Inner Mongolia Au...
【#722】Suga Should Cancel Xi’s State Visit to Japan
September 28, 2020 On the night of September 25, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held his first telephone talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping since his assumption of the premiership e...
【#721(Special)】Suga Should Not Invite Xi as State Guest
September 23, 2020 While new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has many things to do, what he should not do is to invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Japan as a state guest. Annoye...
【#720】New Prime Minister Suga Lacks National Vision
September 23, 2020 New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has got a good start as his commonplace words of “working for the people” and “implementing policies speedily” have become popular, ...
【#719(Special)】China Is a National Security Threat
September 14, 2020 While expanding its hegemony under the slogan of “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” China has repeated joint naval and air force exercises in the western Pacific in a...
【#718】Here Emerged Anti-Nuke, Pro-Communist Opposition Party
September 14, 2020 In a major realignment of Japan’s opposition camp, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) has joined with most of National Democratic Party (NDP) members and inde...