Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Apr 01, 2020 (Wed)

【#667(Special)】Over 10,000 Estimated to Have Died of New Coronavirus in N. Korea

March 30, 2020 　 More than 10,000 people died in North Korea by late March of the new coronavirus, according to insider information that reached me last week. Deaths have concentrated in the North K...

Apr 01, 2020 (Wed)

【#666(Special)】Concern over Japan Times’ Revision of Comfort Women Description

March 30, 2020 　 The Japan Times, an English daily in Japan, in a half-page announcement on March 20 said it would revise its description of prewar and wartime “comfort women” again after a revision...

Mar 31, 2020 (Tue)

【#665】U.S. and China Deepening Confrontation While Cooperating on Pandemic

March 30, 2020 　 On March 27, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in a telephone call agreed to work together to defeat the new coronavirus pandemic. Even in the presence of...

Mar 25, 2020 (Wed)

【#664】Antivirus Economic Measures Should Be Clear on Targets and Objectives

March 23, 2020 　 The economic impacts of the new coronavirus pandemic are growing serious. As the infection is spreading from China to Europe and the United States, the movement of people has stoppe...

Mar 18, 2020 (Wed)

【#663】Local Governors’ Competence Will Be Tested by Coronavirus

March 16, 2020 　 Japan has revised the Act on Special Measures against New Influenza to prevent the novel coronavirus pandemic from expanding further. Parliamentary deliberations on the revision ...

Mar 11, 2020 (Wed)

【#662(Special)】Significant Victory in Case for Fabricated Reports on Comfort Woman

March 10, 2020 　 On March 3, a high court gave me a perfect victory in a libel case in which former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi Uemura sued me for criticizing his reports on a former Ko...

Mar 11, 2020 (Wed)

【#661】Japan Should Create Suprapartisan Advisory Panel on China Policy

March 9, 2020 　 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Japan visit as state guest has been postponed. The decision is natural as it is uncertain when the new coronavirus epidemic that originated from China’...

Mar 05, 2020 (Thu)

【#660(Special)】Key KWP Official Fired

March 2, 2020 　 An incident as big as the execution of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle Jang Song Thaek in December 2013 occurred in the center of power in Pyongyang in February. The powerful...

Mar 05, 2020 (Thu)

【#659】Enhance Transparency of School Textbook Screening

March 2, 2020 　 On December 25 last year, the education ministry disapproved Jiyusha Publishing’s junior high school history textbook prepared by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform tha...

Feb 26, 2020 (Wed)

【#658】Disease of Autocracy Covering up Inconvenient Truth

February 25, 2020 　 It may be natural for an authoritarian regime to cover up an inconvenient truth. For the reason of a column headline, China has expelled three correspondents of The Wall Street J...