【#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 ...
September 30, 2019 In the Speaking Out #620 column, Tsutomu Toichi, senior adviser at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, took up drone and cruise missile attacks on oil facilities in Saudi ...
【#622】Intensifying Great Power Competition in South Pacific
September 30, 2019 The Solomon Islands and Kiribati in the South Pacific severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established official relations with China. Encouraged by its successful money ...
【#621(Special)】Not-Guilty Verdict for Former TEPCO Executives
September 24, 2019 The Tokyo District Court has acquitted all three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding Inc. of professional negligence resulting in death over the TEPCO Fuku...