【#288】How to Fight History War?
March 2, 2015 On March 1, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in her annual address to commemorate an independence movement against Japanese rule, reiterated (for the several hundredth tim...
【#287】Outrageous Yonaguni Referendum
February 23, 2015 On February 22, a referendum took place on the planned deployment of a Ground Self-Defense Force unit on Okinawa Prefecture's Yonaguni Island, the westernmost Japanese isle...
【#286】Criticizing Refusal to Correct U.S. History Textbook
February 16, 2015 On February 5, a total of 19 U.S. historians issued a statement opposing a Japanese government request for U.S. publisher McGraw Hill Education to correct a world history t...
【#285】Constitutional Debate Linked to History War
February 9, 2015 When a delegation of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals visited India in September 2011 along with a bipartisan group of Japanese lawmakers including Shinzo Abe, ...
【#284】Japan Should Create Intelligence Agency
February 2, 2015 Since the beginning of this year, radical Muslim militants have made terror attacks in Europe and caused a hostage crisis involving Japanese citizens. Through these inciden...
【#283】Can Japan Counter Terrorism by Giving Top Priority to Human Lives?
January 26, 2015 When Japanese Red Army terrorists hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in 1977, then Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda paid $6 million in ransom and released these terrorists...
【#282】Don’t Mistake Essence of French Terrorist Attack
January 19, 2015 On January 17, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Egypt for a summit meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi. "We must stop the growing global radicali...
【#281】Japan Must Enhance Public Relations to Win Information War
January 12, 2014 When I visited the United States for a survey on the comfort woman issue late last year, I inspected comfort woman monuments and statues at eight locations around the count...
【#280】Make 2015 a Year for Building Equal Relationship with U.S. and China
January 5, 2015 In the year 2015 marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, I would strongly like Japan to brighten its prospects. From early spring to early summer this...
【#279】Abe Should Be a Japanese Churchill
December 29, 2014 While reviewing the international situation in the past year, I anew feel the importance of 19th century Japanese naval commissioner Katsu Kaishu’s words “Think Globally, ...