April 18, 2016 I have recently obtained surprising information that the Kim Jong-un regime in North Korea has requested that the Islamist extremist organization Islamic State (IS) carry out t...
【#368】It’s Time for Emergency Legislation Including Constitutional Amendment
April 18, 2016 When a major earthquake hit Kumamoto Prefecture in western Japan in mid-April, the Abe cabinet made a quick response. In five minutes after the first quake, it set up an emerge...
【#367】Japan Should Engage with Problems in Areas under Control in Past
April 11, 2016 How to deal with China has become an issue of vital importance for the entire western Pacific region as the future international development is uncertain. The issue is also how...
【#366】Researchers in Japan Helped N. Korea Develop Nuclear Missiles
April 4, 2016 The Japanese government announced its own sanctions on North Korea on February 10. The 10 sanctions include seven restrictions on human exchanges, a ban in principle on remittan...
【#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...