Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

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...

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...