【#380】Tax Hike Delay and Fiscal Stimulus to Revive Abenomics
June 6, 2016 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has postponed consumption tax hike until October 2019, while only a little more than two years are left for his Abenomics economic policy. If h...
【#379(Special)】Scallops and Seaweeds Are Weeping
June 2, 2016 On May 21, I had an opportunity to attend the fifth sea memorial service that took place in Kesennuma Bay of Miyagi Prefecture for victims in the Great East Japan Earthquake, ha...
【#378】Prepare for Global Nationalism Rise
May 30, 2016 As economic power and military power are indispensable for an independent nation, ideals and realistic appreciation are necessary for politics. For U.S. President Barack O...
【#377(Special)】Abe Should Be Free of Colonial Performance
May 23, 2016 It may be unconceivable that a U.S. president would call major cabinet members to the White House, request lectures from Japanese prime minister’s brains on tax and other econom...
【#376】Tsai gently sidesteps 1992 Consensus
May 23, 2016 On May 20, Democratic Progressive Party leader Tsai Ingwen became Taiwan’s 14th president. I had been interested in what policy direction the first woman Taiwanese president wou...
May 16, 2016 On May 13, the U.S. Department of Defense released an annual report on Chinese military power. It indicated a high alertness to Chinese military trends, citing three new develop...
【#374】Selfish People Could Ruin Japan
May 16, 2016 How selfish these Japanese are! I got the feeling when reading the results of an interview poll of 700 people in 11 prefectures as carried by the May 16 issue of the weekl...
【#373(Special)】WPK Congress Breaks No New Ground
May 12, 2016 In Pyongyang from May 6 through 9, the Workers’ Party of Korea held its first congress in 36 years. The WPK forcibly mobilized the people for a campaign called “70-day struggl...
【#372】Trump’s “Great” America
May 9, 2016 “Make America great again,” says the presidential election campaign slogan of Donald Trump set to win the Republican presidential nomination. The phrase tells us the mindset of ...
【#371】Constitution Alone Left Unchanged
May 2, 2016 On May 3, the Constitution of Japan enters its 70th year. Japan is the only country that has never amended its constitution as long as 69 years. I cannot but to say it is extraord...