【#571(Special)】Trump’s State of Union Address and Japan – Importance of Leadership
February 7, 2019 When seeing U.S. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address from Japan, I felt anew that American leadership is important. On foreign policy, Trump first empha...
【#570】Don’t Leave President Trump to Ease Sanctions on North Korea
February 4, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly plans to meet with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in late February. While joking in his Twitter message that he had “fall...
【#569】Japan-Russia Rapprochement Is Not Kids Game
January 28, 2019 Japan-Russia peace treaty negotiations promoted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are reportedly based on an unprecedented strategic vision. In a recent speech at a think tank in ...
【#568(Special)】Japan Should Enhance Nuclear Plant Export and Energy Policies as Part of Growth Strategy
January 21, 2019 On January 18, Hitachi Ltd. announced its board’s decision to freeze a project to build a two-reactor nuclear power station on Britain’s Anglesey Island. The decision came as...
【#567】Trump Deviates from U.S. Strategy Documents
January 21, 2019 In mid-January, the U.S. Department of Defense published three documents - “China Military Power,” “Assessment on U.S. Defense Implications of China’s Expanding Global Access...
【#566】Rebuttal against President Moon
January 15, 2019 South Korean President Moon Jae In in his New Year press conference on January 10 made a remark that cannot be shrugged off about wartime Korean workers in Japan. I take this...
【#565】Fill This Year with Good Chances for Japan
January 7, 2019 Japan could fill this year with good chances depending on its own preparedness. Instead of being plagued with urgent problems that put Japan’s fundamentals into question, we c...
【#564】2018 World Characterized by Offensive America and Defensive China
December 25, 2018 Looking back international developments in the past year, the most significant movement affecting Japan’s fate might be that predictors of future U.S.-China relations have f...
【#563】Crucial Stage Coming for Rescuing Japanese Abductees
December 17, 2018 A climactic battle is coming for rescuing Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea. In the first ever U.S.-North Korea summit in June, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Nor...
December 10, 2018 On December 3, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals made an urgent policy proposal calling on the National Diet, or parliament, to add a resolution stopping a fast ...