【#587】Find F-35A Crash Cause and Take Countermeasures
April 15, 2019 Around 7 p.m. on April 9, a sophisticated F-35A stealth jet fighter of the Air Self-Defense Force based in Misawa air base crashed during a combat exercise in Pacific waters of...
【#586(Special)】Evidence Shows Comfort Women Were Not Slaves
April 8, 2019 In late March, I called at a private museum on Taiwanese comfort women during my visit to Taipei for an on-the-spot survey of historical awareness in Taiwan. Surprisingly, a ban...
【#585】Power Balance Changes Due to Decline of Europe
April 8, 2019 Andrew Small, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, has praised the European Union for being united against China’s economic offensive in Europe at i...
【#584(Special)】New Era Name Is Welcome but Procedure Was Problematic
April 2, 2019 A new era name was announced amid a nationwide fever in Japan, brushing away concerns about a tendency to avoid using the imperial era name or “gengo.” The new era name replacin...
【#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...