Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

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...

Aug 01, 2018 (Wed)

【#531】Trump Is Right in Bashing Germany

July 30, 2018 　　　　　I never imagine that the Japanese nostalgically recall the Japan-Germany alliance during World War II. But not a small number of Japanese people favor Germany. While everyone is...

Jul 26, 2018 (Thu)

【#530】China’s Unacceptable Guilty Sentences for Japanese Citizens

July 23, 2018 　　　　　Courts in China’s Liaoning and Zhejiang provinces sentenced two Japanese citizens to 12 and five years in prison respectively in July after they were seized for alleged spying i...

Jul 18, 2018 (Wed)

【#529】Shock to NATO Likely to Spill over to Japan

July 17, 2018 　　　　　Hastings Ismay, chief military assistant to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II and the first secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio...

Jul 12, 2018 (Thu)

【#528(Special)】U.S. Should Resume Military Drills with S. Korea

July 9, 2018 　　　　　U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Pyongyang without any achievement while being criticized as a “gangster.” U.S. President Donald Trump now must threaten to retract “secur...

Jul 11, 2018 (Wed)

【#527】Trade War Has Originated from China’s Unfair Practices

July 9, 2018 　　　　　The U.S. Trump administration invoked punitive tariffs on Chinese products for the reason of China’s infringement on U.S. intellectual property rights on July 6 as earlier planne...

Jul 05, 2018 (Thu)

【#526(Special)】Award Winning Book Befits 150th Anniversary of Meiji Restoration

July 4, 2018 　　　　　On July 4, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals honored Chuo University Professor Robert Morton with the fifth Japan Study Award and University of East Asia Professor Ch...

Jul 04, 2018 (Wed)

【#525】Joint Survey on Abduction Would Do More Harm than Good

July 2, 2018 　　　　　The North Korean dictator has launched a diplomatic offensive because he has felt threats to his own life as the result of “maximum pressure” strategy led by Japan and the United...

Jun 28, 2018 (Thu)

【#524(Special)】Korea Becoming Tributary to China even in Best Scenario

June 25, 2018 　　　　　I take a positive view of the results of the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit on June 12. This is because the joint statement by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean l...