Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

Nov 18, 2015 (Wed)

【#337】China Militarizing East China Sea As Well

November 16, 2015 　　　　　The Japan Ministry of Defense has announced the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s Dongdiao-class AGI (Auxiliary General Intelligence ship) repeated east-west p...

Nov 11, 2015 (Wed)

【#336】Judicial Arrogation and Lawmakers’ Anemia

November 9, 2015 　　　　　On November 4, the Grand Bench of the Supreme Court concluded the trial on a suit questioning the constitutionality of a Civil Code provision denying separate family names ...

Nov 05, 2015 (Thu)

【#335】Japan Should Join Freedom of Navigation Operations

November 2, 2015 　　　　　The U.S. Navy's Aegis destroyer Lassen passed within 12 nautical miles (nm) of China-reclaimed islands in the South China Sea last week. China sharply reacted to the U.S. m...

Oct 28, 2015 (Wed)

【#334】Questioning Seriousness of LDP about Constitutional Amendment

October 26, 2015 　　　　　The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has replaced House of Representatives lawmaker Hajime Funada with similar lawmaker Eisuke Mori as chairman of the LDP Headquarters for t...

Oct 21, 2015 (Wed)

【#333(Special)】Obama Responsible for Global Turbulence

October 19, 2015 　　　　　Japanese have tended to lack a wide perspective in analyzing the international situation since before World War II. This may be the reason Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reitera...

Oct 20, 2015 (Tue)

【#332】Japan Should Urgently Organize Team to Deal with UNESCO Problem

October 19, 2015 　　　　　At its October 4-6 meeting in Abu Dhabi, the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) International Advisory Committee decided to inscribe ...

Oct 14, 2015 (Wed)

【#331】Japan Should Officially Deny Forcible Recruitment of Comfort Women

October 13, 2015 　　　　　I visited Geneva in Switzerland to attend a pre-sessional working group of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at the United Nations European H...

Oct 07, 2015 (Wed)

【#330】Significance of Russia’s New SSBN Station in Pacific

October 5, 2015 　　　　　On September 30, Russia's Borei-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Alexander Nevsky arrived at the eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the major U.S. onli...

Oct 01, 2015 (Thu)

【#329】Obama Failing to Take Next Action against China

September 28, 2015 　　　　　The U.S.-China summit at the White House on September 24-25 indicated that the Obama administration has only a limited range of actions to take in the immediate future ag...

Sep 29, 2015 (Tue)

【#328】Next Are Constitutional Amendments

September 24, 2015 　　　　　Assessing a line connecting a series of points would be fairer than checking each point. A series of recent government actions including the creation of the National Secu...