【#466】News Media Distorting School Textbook Issue
September 11, 2017 On September 6, Japan’s public broadcasting corporation NHK took up the school textbook issue in its television program named “Closeup Gendai+.” The program reported that a...
【#465(Special)】N. Korean Nuclear Crisis Reaching Crucial Stage
September 4, 2017 On September 3, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear explosion test. On the previous day, I met with an informant with connections to the inside of North Korea in Seoul w...
【#464】Budget Request Indicates Low Defense Consciousness
September 4, 2017 Japan’s defense budget request for fiscal 2018 hit a record 5.25 trillion yen. However, the past trend in a Ministry of Defense budget request line graph shows that the requ...
【#463(Special)】Glendale Mayor Briefed on Truth about Comfort Women
August 29, 2017 On August 25, I got a meeting with Vartan Gharpetian, mayor of Glendale in California. In the city close to Los Angeles, a statue of a comfort woman for the wartime Imperial J...
【#462】China-N. Korea Fishing Deal Is A Loophole in UN Sanctions
August 28, 2017 On August 5, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted new sanctions on North Korea for its firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The new sanctions incl...
【#461】Make Fact-based Rebuttal over Requisitioned Korean Workers
August 21, 2017 South Korean President Moon Jae In told a press conference on August 17 that Korean workers requisitioned for Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies before the end of World W...
【#460】Defense Policies’ Deviation from Actual Situation
August 14, 2017 The Ministry of Defense has just published a defense white paper for 2017. Having read the annual report, titled Defense of Japan 2017, I sensed a deviation between Part I “Se...
【#459】Asking for Abe’s Determination to Amend Constitution
August 7, 2017 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his third reshuffled cabinet amid very adverse conditions. What I worry about is apparent hesitation in expressing his determination to amend...
【#458(Special)】Terrible Film “Battleship Island” (Part 2 of 2)
August 2, 2017 I have reiterated that South Korean President Moon Jae In and his supporters have the “anti-South Korean masochistic view of history” meaning that pro-Japan Koreans who had coo...
【#457(Special)】Terrible Film “Battleship Island” (Part 1 of 2)
August 2, 2017 In Seoul, I watched a newly-released South Korean film titled “The Battleship Island.” I would like to make two reports about the film. This report, Part 1, indicates that the ...