【#607(Special)】Special Award Given to English Translation of Book on Comfort Women
July 16, 2019 Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Hamilton Books), an English translation of a book by Japanese modern historian Ikuhiko Hata, has won this year’s Japan Study Spe...
【#606】Japan Would Be Mocked if Depending on Others for Protecting Its Ships
July 16, 2019 On July 9, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford unveiled a plan for the United States to form a coalition of willingness with allies in a few weeks to ...
【#605】Japan Should Seek to Create World Whale-Raising Organization
July 8, 2019 Japan resumed commercial whaling in its 200-mile exclusive economic zone on July 1 after its notification of the withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission on De...
【#604】Japan Should Wake Up to “Third Black Ship Arrival”
July 1, 2019 “Japan’s fate was changed by the United States twice in history - the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s black ship in 1853 and Japan’s defeat by the U.S. in World War I...
【#603】Clash of Values Coming after G20 Summit?
June 24, 2019 Now that the Group of 20 summit for multilateral cooperation after the 2008 financial crisis has weakened its coordinating function, the flow of the whole conference will...
【#602(Special)】Japan Should Unequivocally Support Hong Kong Protestors
June 17, 2019 Massive protest demonstrations came in Hong Kong against a measure to put the autonomous region under the Chinese Communist Party’s suppressive regime. As the extradition...
【#601】Don’t Allow Anyone to Benefit from U.S.-Iran Confrontation
June 17, 2019 Who attacked two oil tankers including a Japanese ship near the Strait of Hormuz? The United States has held Iran responsible, while Iran has denied its involvement. The ...
【#600(Special)】Why Not Condemn China’s Defense Minister?
June 10, 2019 On June 6, the Japanese House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Hodaka Maruyama, expelled from the Japan Innovation Party, for his remark suggesting a war...
【#599】Trump’s North Korean Policy Worthy of High Ratings
June 10, 2019 June 12 marks the first anniversary of the unprecedented U.S.-North Korea summit. While the results of the summit came under fire from various quarters at the time, I gav...
【#598(Special)】Modi Continuing Sturdy Diplomacy toward China
June 3, 2019 The Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has advanced to the second term following the ruling Bharatiya Janata (Indian People’s) Party’s clear victory in the general...