【#393】Japan’s Constitutional Reform to Propel Asian Stability
August 15, 2016 Peace in Asia demands a proactive Japan. The issue Japan faces today is not whether it should remain pacifist but whether it can afford to stay passive in regional and interna...
【#392】Unsatisfactory Defense White Paper
August 8, 2016 As the writer of Part I (World Military Situation) of Japan’s defense white paper for 1987, I would like to comment on this year’s version. The latest defense white paper fails...
【#391(Special)】Questionable “Comfort Women” Records Presented for UNESCO Inscription
August 5, 2016 Excerpts of a joint application for the inscription of documents on comfort women for the wartime Japanese Imperial Army on the UNESCO Memory of the World list were released on...
【#390】80% of Former Comfort Women Support Accord
August 1, 2016 Based on a Tokyo-Seoul agreement late last year, the South Korean government launched the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation on July 28 to support former comfort women. At a...
【#389】Where Has Leader of Free World Gone?
July 25, 2016 Ronald Reagan became the first U.S. presidential candidate to adopt the slogan “Make America Great Again” in 1980. Although liberals had criticized Reagan as short-sighted and d...
【#388】International Framework Required for Surveillance on South China Sea
July 19, 2016 In the wake of a ruling by an international arbitral tribunal that denied China’s claim to sovereignty on the South China Sea, the Chair’s Statement at the 11th Asia-Europe Meet...
【#387(Special)】I Saw South China Sea Tribunal Fair and Neutral
July 13, 2016 An arbitral ruling has come out on a Philippine-China dispute over the South China Sea. The ruling on July 12 denied China’s claim to historic rights in the sea within the so-ca...
【#386】Attitude on Constitution Serves As Litmus Test for Statesmen
July 11, 2016 Through the July 10 House of Councilors election, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, plus their allies who favor constitutional amendment, won a two-thirds majorit...
【#385】Western Concerns Bringing International Order to New Phase
July 4, 2016 Any objective analyzers of international situation should not carelessly judge whether Britain’s leave from the European Union was advisable or not. Are 52% of British voters who...
【#384】Unshared European Integration Philosophy
June 27, 2016 Ahead of the British national referendum, all other EU member countries had hoped to see Britain remaining in the European Union. It is not exaggeration to say that Britain’s vo...