【#583】Japan’s Two-Island Approach Evidently Failed in Talks with Russia
April 1, 2019 As feared earlier, Japan’s territorial negotiations with Russia have run into rough waters. Last November, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Puti...
【#582(Special)】Kim Regime Shaken by 5 Senior Officials’ Runaway
March 25, 2019 Since the breakdown of February’s U.S.-North Korea summit, domestic turmoil in North Korea has grown more serious. Disappointment and discontent have been spreading among ordin...
【#581】G7 Divided over China’s BRI
March 25, 2019 China’s attempt to include Europe into its Belt and Road Initiative to create a giant economic zone has apparently gained momentum. During a visit to Italy to launch a European...
【#580(Special)】Minority Suppression and Sinocentrism
March 19, 2019 The U.S. Department of State released Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018, in which it analyzed and condemned the Chinese government’s minority suppression polic...
【#579】“Maximum Pressure” Should Be Strategy against Pyongyang
March 18, 2019 The Japanese government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to refrain from jointly submitting to the United Nations Human Rights Council a resolution accusing North Korea...
【#578(Special)】Fake Economic Growth Surrounded by Great Wall of Debt
March 11, 2019 At the outset on March 5 of an annual session of the National People’s Congress, China’s dummy legislature controlled by the Communist Party, Premier Li Keqiang announced to se...
【#577】Approaching Last Chance to Rescue Japanese Abductees
March 11, 2019 After the breakdown of the U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi in late February, some in Japan observed that a breakthrough might come on the issue of the North’s abduction of Jap...
March 4, 2019 The fatal abuse of a fourth grader girl by her parents in Chiba Prefecture has prompted the government and ruling parties to ban corporal punishment in a bill to be submitted to...
【#575】President Moon’s Dangerous Anti-Japan Address
March 4, 2019 On March 1, South Korean President Moon Jae In delivered an address to mark the centennial anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement that took place in 1919 for Korea's i...
【#574】Enhance Cooperation with European Democracies
February 25, 2019 A symposium on the quadrilateral cooperation between Japan, the United States, Australia and India was held recently in Berlin, in which I participated as a panelist. In lat...