【#633】Waste No More Time Debating on Cherry-blossom Party
November 18, 2019 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided to cancel his cherry-blossom party next year, after being criticized for having invited many of his political supporters to the publicl...
【#632】Path to Improve Japan-S. Korea Relations
November 11, 2019 South Korean government and ruling party have been sending signals seeking to improve relations with Japan. After the prime minister and the National Assembly speaker visited Jap...
【#631】Implications of BRI’s Disappearance from Chinese Party Communique
November 5, 2019 On October 31, the Chinese Communist Party concluded the fourth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee and released a 6,000-letter communique spelling out future domestic a...
【#630(Special)】Japanese Media Failing to Cover Anti-Moon Rally
October 28, 2019 Japanese media coverage of South Korean situation is ridiculous. From the afternoon of October 25 to the next morning, some 200,000 citizens staged an overnight mass rally urging ...
【#629】Japan Should Reconsider Inviting Xi as State Guest
October 28, 2019 On October 24, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech on China for the second time in 13 months. Since his speech in October 2018 that comprehensively criticized China’...
【#628】Extraneous Japan Keeping from Supporting Hong Kong Protests
October 21, 2019 The Group of Seven industrial democracies at their annual summit in August should have agreed to urge China to recognize Hong Kong’s high-level autonomy as promised earlier and av...
【#627】A Day When Japan Could Become “Asian Kurds”
October 15, 2019 Hadn’t the Kurds been a U.S. ally that would stand or fall together with U.S. forces in fighting against the cruel Islamic State terrorist group? The recent U.S. decision to withd...
【#626(Special)】Korean Civilization’s Counterattack on Totalitarian Power
October 7, 2019 On October 3 marking South Korea’s Gaecheonjeol National Foundation Day, 500,000 citizens rallied in Seoul calling for the resignation of President Moon Jae In and the arrest of Ju...
【#625(Special)】Mainstream U.S. Media Adding Fuel to “Cold Civil War”
October 7, 2019 Popular U.S. talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has described the present U.S. political situation as a “cold civil war.” The description indicates that camps that support and oppose Pr...
【#624】U.S. Real lntention: Let Japan Defend Itself
October 7, 2019 On October 2, North Korea test-fired a “Pukguksong-3” submarine-launched ballistic missile from waters off Wonsan on its eastern coast. The SLBM was launched at a lofted orbit and ...