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Speaking out

Aug 19, 2020 (Wed)

【#710】Japan-South Korea Normalization Impossible under President Moon

August 17, 2020 　 Most Japanese media headlined South Korean President Moon Jae In’s speech on August 15 as calling for talks with Japan. After reading the full text of the speech and a congratulato...

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Aug 11, 2020 (Tue)

【#709】Japan Should Support Oppressed Ethnic Minorities in China

Special ContributionAugust 11, 2020 　 What Japan should seek a three-quarter century after World War II is to break away from the Yalta system, a framework for postwar international order including ...

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Aug 11, 2020 (Tue)

【#708】Japan Ｍust Flex Its Foreign-Policy Muscle

Special ContributionAugust 11, 2020 　 The international spotlight on Japan’s prolonged economic woes has helped obscure one of the most important but least-noticed developments — the political rise ...

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Aug 11, 2020 (Tue)

【#707】Japan Needs to Become a Great Power Again: 75 Years After the War

Special ContributionAugust 11, 2020 　 In 1853 Commodore Perry visited Japan with a complaint. Japan was not a great power which threatened the US Navy but as the ranges of sailing ships increased ow...

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Aug 06, 2020 (Thu)

【#706(Special)】A Tribute to Lee Tenghui

August 3, 2020 　 Learning of Lee Tenghui’s passing, I kneel on the floor with a deep bow. Thank you so much. I have no more words. Official apology for 2/28 incident I clearly remember a ...

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Aug 06, 2020 (Thu)

【#705】Tough U.S. China Policy Represents Reproach to Japan

August 3, 2020 　 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech titled “Communist China and the Free World’s Future” at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California on July 23 was apparently o...

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Jul 29, 2020 (Wed)

【#704(Special)】N. Korea’s Coronavirus Outbreak and Deepening Crisis

July 27, 2020 　 Ending a claim that there is no novel coronavirus patient in the country, North Korea has finally admitted the outbreak of the infection. A former North Korean defector who had retur...

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Jul 29, 2020 (Wed)

【#703】Let’s Restore Japanese Mind of Caring about Others

July 27, 2020 　 After Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency in April, Japanese people acted in a remarkable manner. The government declaration is not legally binding or backed by p...

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Jul 22, 2020 (Wed)

【#702】U.S. Launches Rollback against China

July 20, 2020 　 Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at his telephone talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov criticized the United States as breaking the basic rules of int...

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Jul 15, 2020 (Wed)

【#701(Special)】Struggle of “Anti-Japan Tribalism” Authors

July 13, 2020 On July 2, Song Young Gil, who chairs the Foreign Policy and Unification Committee of South Korea’s National Assembly, held a press conference along with family members of former comf...

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