【#546】U.S.-Japan Joint Statement Comes Up with Coalition against China
October 1, 2018 The Japanese government had tried to keep away from entering negotiations with the United States on a bilateral free trade agreement before a U.S.-Japan summit on September 26...
【#545】Challenges for Abe Elected LDP Head for 3rd Term
September 25, 2018 Once reelected, a U.S. president tends to become a lame duck. After a midterm congressional election in the middle of the second four-year presidential term, the tendency a...
【#544】Is Putin Really a Bachelor of Law?
September 18, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to sign a peace treaty with Japan within this year without any preconditions at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok where Ja...
【#543(Special)】Putin’s Imperial Diplomacy
September 13, 2018 An imperial diplomacy typically features the cunning of sweetening foreign countries with smiles while rattling sabers. Exactly, Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed J...
【#542】Global Warming Has Stopped
September 10, 2018 Many people may wonder if summer heat waves this year, floods accompanying typhoons and other abnormal climatic or environmental changes might have resulted from global war...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...