【#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...
【#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 ...
【#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...
【#513】No Rush to Improve Relations with China
May 14, 2018 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accompanied Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on his trip to Hokkaido after a Japan-China-South Korea summit in Tokyo last week and sent him off at a local air...
【#512】Don’t Ease Pressure on N. Korea until Return of Abductees
May 7, 2018 From April 30 through May 5, I visited the United States as a member of a joint delegation of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea and two supportin...
【#511】Panmunjom Declaration Represents Deception and Betrayal
May 1, 2018 “The two leaders solemnly declared before the 80 million Korean people and the whole world that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and thus a new era of peace has b...
【#510(Special)】Expectations on Japan Seen in Congressional Testimony
April 23, 2018 While Japanese opposition parties and media were focusing on the vice finance minister’s reported sexual harassment and a Self-Defense Forces officer’s insulting remark to an o...
【#509】Specter of Yoshida Doctrine is Haunting
April 23, 2018 The specter of the so-called Yoshida doctrine is haunting in the Japanese political center of Nagata-cho. The doctrine, which called for a lightly armed, economically powerful ...
【#508】Free World Facing Dangerous World
April 16, 2018 The latest military strike by the United States, Britain and France on Syria may have indicated that the United States, though having been tired of engagement in world affairs,...
【#507】Japan Should Take Leadership in Revitalizing WTO
April 9, 2018 The United States and China have escalated their trade dispute, filing complaints against each other with the World Trade Organization and increasing the risk of world economy d...