Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Jun 28, 2018 (Thu)

【#523】Get rid of Positioning U.S. as Pike and Japan as Shield

June 25, 2018 　　　　　At a press conference after his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, U.S. President Donald Trump offered to suspend U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises as they ar...

Jun 20, 2018 (Wed)

【#522】Trump’s “Money First” Is Problematic

June 18, 2018 　　　　　The agreement at the first ever summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore on June 12 is too vague to lead us to become confident that North Korea will really...

Jun 20, 2018 (Wed)

【#521(Special)】Try Secret Negotiations with N. Korea Using Intelligence Pros

June 15, 2018 　　　　　The recent U.S.-North Korea summit has made great progress toward rescuing Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea. U.S. President Donald Trump told a press conference that he...

Jun 19, 2018 (Tue)

【#520(Special)】Precarious U.S.-North Korea Political Show

June 14, 2018 　　　　　Surely, June 12 when a U.S.-North Korea summit took place has become a historic day. This is because the two countries’ theatrical political leaders broadly reached an agreement...

Jun 13, 2018 (Wed)

【#519】Remember Significance of G7 Summit

June 11, 2018 　　　　　German Chancellor Angela Merkel described U.S. President Donald Trump’s talks with six other leaders at a Group of Seven summit in Italy’s Taormina last year as not very unsatis...

Jun 07, 2018 (Thu)

【#518(Special)】Belt and Road Initiative Starts Backspin

June 4, 2018 　　　　　China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a modern silk road economic zone ambition, has started a backspin at last. In Malaysia that had attempted to join the BRI, a new administr...

Jun 06, 2018 (Wed)

【#517】China Creating Its Own International Standards

June 4, 2018 　　　　　Shangri-La Dialogue 2018, an Asian security summit attended by defense ministers and senior military officers, took place in Singapore last weekend. Until two years ago, China ha...

May 30, 2018 (Wed)

【#516】U.S. Striking Counterblow against China

May 28, 2018 　　　　　Elizabeth Economy, director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading U.S. think tank, has contributed a persuasive essay to the May/June issue of Foreign A...

May 23, 2018 (Wed)

【#515】French Intellectuals Call for Switching Japan’s Security View

May 21, 2018 　　　　　The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals held a symposium titled “New Global Challenges and Japan” on May 17 to mark its 10th anniversary. Invited to the symposium as guest ...

May 18, 2018 (Fri)

【#514(Special)】Intelligence Agencies Required for a Libya Model

May 14, 2018 　　　　　The U.S. government seems willing to adopt the so-called “Libya model” to the denuclearization of North Korea. The model featured foreign intelligence agencies already aware of n...