【#401】South Korean Scholar Says Comfort Women Were Not Sex Slaves
October 11, 2016 A professor at South Korea’s Seoul National University in his Internet lecture has rightly claimed: “As comfort women were public prostitutes, the sex slave theory is wrong. ...
【#400】Problematic Remark by UNESCO Official on Comfort Women
October 3, 2016 On September 9, a meeting took place at the Korean YMCA in Japan in Tokyo’s Chiyoda ward aiming at the inscription of documents on comfort women for the wartime Japanese Imper...
【#399】Abe’s Approach on Russia May End Up with Return of 2 Islands Alone
September 26, 2016 Japan-Russia relations may mark a watershed on December 15. This is because Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may announce a joint statement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, ...
【#398】Monju Decommissioning Means Fall of Japan
September 20, 2016 The Japanese government is trying to use mass media to decommission the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor. As the Monju generates electricity and stands at the core of t...
【#397】15th Anniversary of 9/11 and Japan
September 12, 2016 On September 11, the United States marked the 15th anniversary of terrorist attacks in 2001. Given that 24 Japanese citizens were among the victims of the attacks by the al...
【#396】Great Power Politics and Abe Diplomacy
September 5, 2016 As only a little more than four months are left before the end of the Barack Obama administration, the United States is failing to exercise its international leadership in m...
【#395】Apparent Use of Solid Fuel by North Korea
August 29, 2016 When I watched the video footage of ballistic missile launch by North Korea from a submarine on August 24, I found white powdery smoke emitted from the missile and suspected t...
【#394】Biden’s Remark and Japanese Constitution
August 22, 2016 U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s remark on the Japanese constitution on August 15 has become controversial in Japan. When criticizing Republican presidential nominee Donald Tru...
【#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...