【#476】Chance Finally Emerges for War-Renouncing Article 9 to Be Amended
October 23, 2017 The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s dominant strength against other Japanese political parties remained unchanged through the latest general election of the House of Repres...
【#475】Japan Should Exit UNESCO Depending on Comfort Women Inscription
October 16, 2017 On October 12, the U.S. government announced it would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The announcement came in protest to ...
【#474(Special)】Personnel Shakeup Indicates Pyongyang’s Sense of Crisis
October 11, 2017 On October 10, the anniversary of the Korea Workers’ Party, North Korea did not make any military provocation like missile firing and nuclear tests. Given the Kim Jong-un reg...
【#473(Special)】Takaichi’s Admirable Comment
October 10, 2017 “When I became a lawmaker, I was surprised to find politicians who speak on the premise that what they don’t want to happen should not happen,” says former Internal Affairs a...
【#472】Japan Can No Longer Depend on U.S.
October 10, 2017 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the powerful House of Representatives for a snap election, realizing that Japanese people’s sense of crisis as a whole is very low even in...
【#471】Party of Hope Looks Liberal-oriented
October 2, 2017 “I would not be surprised to see anything happen over the North Korean issue if U.S. military get prepared after U.S. President Donald Trump ends his Asian tour in mid-Novembe...
【#470】Reject Elected Elites Having No Willingness to Protect People
September 25, 2017 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has chosen to dissolve the House of Representatives for a snap election amid the North Korean nuclear crisis. Opposition parties have immediately ...
【#469(Special)】Talks with Senior U.S. Officials on North Korean Problems
September 20, 2017 For about a week from September 11, I visited Washington and New York as a member of a joint delegation of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnaped by North Kore...
【#468】UNESCO’s Raison D’etre Called into Question over Comfort Women Issue
September 19, 2017 The UNESCO International Advisory Committee might have been recommended by the Register Subcommittee to accept the inscription of a set of documents titled “Voices of the ‘...
【#467(Special)】U.N. Sanctions to Deprive Kim of Foreign Currencies
September 12, 2017 On September 11, the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution on sanctions on North Korea only a week after Pyongyang conducted its sixth nuclear explosion ...