【#424(Special)】Conservative Rally Outdoes Leftists in South Korea
March 3, 2017 On the afternoon of March 1, the center of Seoul was filled with people attending a national flag rally. Any accurate number of participants in the rally is unknown as police ha...
【#423】Hopes on Japan-Russia 2+2 Meeting
February 27, 2017 A Japan-Russia 2+2 meeting will take place in Tokyo on March 20. What is the 2+2 meeting? It means a regular consultative framework to discuss bilateral cooperation and comm...
【#422】Concerns and Hopes Mixed at Japan-U.S.-India Talks
February 20, 2017 I and three other delegates of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals visited New Delhi on February 16 and 17 for bilateral dialogue with the Indian think tank Viveka...
【#421】Abe Approaches Key U.S. Officials to Persuade Trump
February 13, 2017 The first official meetings between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump on February 10 and 11 made the greatest achievements that can be expec...
【#420】Predicting U.S. Strategy Based on Advisers to Defense Secretary
February 6, 2017 The U.S. Trump administration’s Defense Secretary James Mattis made his first visit to Japan, holding talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Defense Minister Tomomi Inada. ...
【#419】Japan Should Accept Responsibility Sharing with U.S.
January 30, 2017 How will the Japan-U.S. alliance survive under the unpredictable Trump administration? New U.S. President Donald Trump in his inaugural address said, “We will reinforce old a...
【#418】New World Order Featuring Declining U.S. Leadership
January 23, 2017 Japanese or Western media may not be able to give any clear conclusion on the new U.S. administration. It may be because not a few Trump cabinet members are willing to contin...
【#417】NYT Still Biased about Comfort Women
January 16, 2017 The New York Times on January 6 carried an editorial titled “No Closure on the ‘Comfort Women.’” The editorial takes a stance that both Japan and South Korea are responsible ...
【#416】Japan Is Urgently Required to Amend Constitution
January 10, 2017 “The Liberal Democratic Party will launch full-fledged new nation-building efforts along with the people,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in his New Year statement on January...
【#415】U.S. Status May Decline Further Under Trump
December 26, 2016 The biggest news in 2016 might have been the “Trump Phenomenon.” How will this extraordinary change in the U.S. history of 71 years after World War II influence areas such a...