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Speaking out

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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