Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Jun 24, 2020 (Wed)

【#693(Special)】Kim Yo Jong Has Become N. Korea’s 2nd Supreme Leader

June 22, 2020 　 North Korea has transitioned from the Kim Jong Un dictatorship to the joint dictatorship by Kim Jong Un and his younger sister Kim Yo Jong. This indicates Kim Jong Un’s seriously ill...

Jun 24, 2020 (Wed)

【#692】Aegis Ashore Suspension Putting Countless Lives at Risk

June 22, 2020 　 On June 15, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono announced the government would suspend a plan to deploy Aegis Ashore ground-based air defense missile systems in Yamaguchi and Akita p...

Jun 18, 2020 (Thu)

【#691(Special)】Clever Strategy for Deterring Wounded Dragon

June 15, 2020 　 Historian Niall Ferguson in his review of past pandemics has pointed out that unknown viruses could intensify existing tensions between social classes and between nations. Chinese Pr...

Jun 16, 2020 (Tue)

【#690】Diet Should Promote Deliberations on Constitution during Recess

June 15, 2020 　 While the National Diet is set to end its ordinary session on June 17, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and other opposition parties are requesting to extend the session....

Jun 15, 2020 (Mon)

【#689(Special)】Merkel’s Shocking Pro-China Speech

June 10, 2020 　 In April when the novel coronavirus was going rampant in the world, the editor-in-chief of the Bild, the largest daily tabloid in Germany, sent an open letter to Chinese President Xi...

Jun 11, 2020 (Thu)

【#688(Special)】Clear the Confusion about Hypochlorous Acid Water

June 9, 2020 　 Social confusion has arisen over an interim report on May 28 by the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation on verification tests of candidate alcohol replacements to disinfec...

Jun 11, 2020 (Thu)

【#687(Special)】Kim Jong Un Transferring Power to Sister

June 8, 2020 　 Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota abducted by North Korea, has passed away. I have been fighting together with him since 1997 to rescue his daughter and other abductees. I f...

Jun 10, 2020 (Wed)

【#686】Remembering Saburo Tsukamoto, Militant Liberalist

June 8, 2020 　 Not a small number of people still misunderstand the defunct Democratic Socialist Party as positioned between the conservative Liberal Democratic Party and the leftist former Japan So...

Jun 03, 2020 (Wed)

【#685】Vague Diplomacy Originates from “Yoshida Doctrine”

June 1, 2020 　 About a half century ago, Britain’s Economist magazine made a bit of a topic by describing Japan’s diplomacy as “judo diplomacy,” pointing out that Japan pulls back when pressed and m...

May 29, 2020 (Fri)

【#684(Special)】Problems Regarding U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan

May 28, 2020 　 On May 20 when a ceremony was held for Taiwan’s President Tsai Ingwen to enter her second term, the United States announced the sale of 18 torpedoes to Taiwan. They were MK-48 large g...