【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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. ...
【#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...
【#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...
【#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...
【#357】Japan Must Not Fall Behind in the International Information Warfare
February 8, 2016 During late January, I went on a lecture tour of the United States giving talks on “China’s Maritime Expansion.” While in America, I became keenly aware of the fact that the J...
【#356】Next FONOP Should Be Held near Mischief Reef
February 8, 2016 On January 30, the United States carried out a freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in which a U.S. naval ship passed through waters within 12 nautical miles from a China-c...