【#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 ...
【#456】“SDF That Cannot Combat” Weakens Deterrence
July 31, 2017 Responsible politicians should tackle a national security crisis Japan faces instead of playing with empty theories about the Self-Defense Forces’ “cover-up tendency.” In a mann...
【제446회】영화『군함도』의 한/독에 의한 악선전을 간과해서는 안 된다
2017년 6월 26일 6월 15일,한국의 영화감독 류승완씨가 서울에서기자회견을 열어,영화 “군함도(軍艦島)” 완성을 보고했다. 7월 하순에 개봉되는 이 작품은, ‘군함도에 강제징용된 조선인들이 목숨을 걸고 탈출을 시도하는 과정’을 그렸다고 한다. 류씨는 ‘강제징용의 고통’을 ‘현재 한국영화에서 할 수 있는 최대치에 도전’하여 ‘영화적인 상상력...
【#455】Stop TV Fascism
July 24, 2017 Television stations are getting out of control. For six months, media have continued to report on “scandals” involving school entities Moritomo Gakuen and the Kake Educati...
【#454】Japanese and U.S. Lawmakers’ Different Responses to Liu’s Death
July 18, 2017 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump made similar responses to the July 13 death of Chinese democratic activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xi...
【#453(Special)】Relying on China over N. Korea Reaching a Limit
July 10, 2017 The U.S. and Chinese presidents met in Hamburg, Germany, on July 8. While U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized the need to respond to North Korea’s growing threat of nuclear a...
【#452】Japan Should Contribute to FONOP — A Year after Arbitral Ruling
July 10, 2017 July 12 marks the first anniversary of an arbitral ruling on China’s construction of artificial islands and other activities in the South China Sea. The ruling on the petition f...
【#451(Special)】Is Japan Prepared to Promote 2nd INF Treaty?
July 3, 2017 On June 20, the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee in its markup for FY 2018 national defense authorization act identified Russia’s deployme...
【#450】Perception Gap behind Superficial U.S.-South Korea Friendship
July 3, 2017 South Korean President Moon Jae In visited Washington for two days of talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. In mid-June, a U.S. military source told me: “President Trump ...