Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Sep 06, 2018 (Thu)

【#541(Special)】Problems with Public Hearing on Tritium-contaminated Water Disposal

September 4, 2018 　　　　　On August 30-31, public hearings on the disposal of water containing radioactive tritium stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. to...

Sep 05, 2018 (Wed)

【#540(Special)】Trump’s Erroneously Reported “Pearl Harbor” Remark

September 3, 2018 　　　　　U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Pearl Harbor” remark at his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in June has been erroneously reported. I would like to introduce a...

Sep 05, 2018 (Wed)

【#539】Is Japan-U.S. Alliance Unshakable?

September 3, 2018 　　　　　At a cabinet meeting on August 28, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera reported the defense white paper for 2018. I appreciate the latest annual report as putting a digest wit...

Aug 29, 2018 (Wed)

【#538】Protect Japanese Companies from Korean Damage Suits

August 27, 2018 　　　　　The Supreme Court of South Korea began hearings on August 23 on a damages suit against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. filed by former Korean workers requisitioned by Japa...

Aug 23, 2018 (Thu)

【#537(Special)】Chinese Marines Eying Invasion into Taiwan, Senkakus

August 20, 2018 　　　　　On July 16, the U.S. Department of Defense released an annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. The report had been publis...

Aug 22, 2018 (Wed)

【#536】Hoping Emperor May Visit Yasukuni Shrine Next Spring

August 20, 2018 　　　　　On August 15, the last war-end anniversary in the Heisei Era, 50 lawmakers belonging to a “Diet Members’ Group for Visiting the Yasukuni Shrine” visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrin...

Aug 13, 2018 (Mon)

【#535】Changes Signaled in Xi Jinping Regime

August 13, 2018 　　　　　Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Communist Party top leaders started an important meeting with influential party elders including former Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Ji...

Aug 09, 2018 (Thu)

【#534(Special)】Oppose a Japan-N. Korea Joint Probe into Abduction

August 6, 2018 　　　　　Even since North Korea’s abduction of Japanese citizens was taken up at the U.S.-North Korea summit in June, North Korea’s official media have continued to assert the abduction...

Aug 09, 2018 (Thu)

【#533】Famed U.S. Scholar Gives up on Maintaining International Order

August 6, 2018 　　　　　Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard University, is known as the proponent of the “Thucydides Trap” theory likening a confrontation between hegemonistic countries to the riva...

Aug 01, 2018 (Wed)

【#532(Special)】Objection to Proposal for Japan and U.S. to Join AIIB

July 30, 2018 　　　　　In the present world, a camp of countries that share values emphasizing freedom, democracy, human rights, market economy and rule-based international order is confronting with a...