Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Apr 12, 2016 (Tue)

【#367】Japan Should Engage with Problems in Areas under Control in Past

April 11, 2016 　　　　　How to deal with China has become an issue of vital importance for the entire western Pacific region as the future international development is uncertain. The issue is also how...

Apr 07, 2016 (Thu)

【#366】Researchers in Japan Helped N. Korea Develop Nuclear Missiles

April 4, 2016 　　　　　The Japanese government announced its own sanctions on North Korea on February 10. The 10 sanctions include seven restrictions on human exchanges, a ban in principle on remittan...

Mar 30, 2016 (Wed)

【#365】Listen to “Sound” Portion of Trump’s Arguments

March 28, 2016 　　　　　To avoid any misunderstanding, I must say first that Donald Trump, front-runner for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination, is not credible at all as a politician. His fre...

Mar 24, 2016 (Thu)

【#364】Government Should Take Accountability for Fiscal Risks

March 22, 2016 　　　　　The Japanese government in mid-March started a series of “international financial and economic analysis meetings” where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and economic ministers exchang...

Mar 15, 2016 (Tue)

【#363】Two Otsu Incidents

March 14, 2016 　　　　　On March 9, Otsu District Court Presiding Judge Yoshihiko Yamamoto ordered the suspension of the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama Nuclear Power Sta...

Mar 09, 2016 (Wed)

【#362】Japan as Cornerstone for Indo-Pacific Security

March 7, 2016 　　　　　Following my U.S. visit in late January, I participated in an international conference in Britain late February. Through these visits, I felt the tidal shift of international co...

Mar 02, 2016 (Wed)

【#361】Japanese Diet Indifferent to Chinese Military Movement

February 29, 2016 　　　　　U.S. or Chinese military movements in the South and East China Seas have been reported almost every day on newspapers and magazines in or out of Japan, and on the Internet. ...

Feb 26, 2016 (Fri)

【#360(Special)】Breaking the “1 Millisievert” Curse

February 25, 2016 　　　　　During a speech on February 7 in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Minister of the Environment Tamayo Marukawa, referring to the decontamination targets following the accident a...

Feb 25, 2016 (Thu)

【#359】Implications of China’s Militarization in South China Sea

February 22, 2016 　　　　　The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed the HQ-9 sophisticated surface-to-air missiles (SAM) on Woody Island of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. W...

Feb 17, 2016 (Wed)

【#358】S. Korea Radically Revises Policies on North and China

February 15, 2016 　　　　　As soon as North Korea launched a long-range rocket, a de facto intercontinental ballistic missile, on February 7, the South Korean government announced that it would immedi...