【#254】JINF Launches Japan Study Award to Deepen Understanding of Japan
July 7, 2014 It may be needless to say that I love Japan. I really feel that values nurtured by our ancestors are precious. When reviewing Japan's history, I feel that Japanese have l...
【#253】Approaching Japan Hands in U.S. on Comfort Women Issue
June 30, 2014 On June 25, 122 South Koreans, including women who had worked at brothels for U.S. troops in South Korea, filed a damages suit against their government, complaining that these...
【#252】A Burlesque Show of Kono Statement Verification
June 23, 2014 On June 20, the Japanese government released a report on an expert team's verification of the process for creating then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono's statement in 1993 ...
【#251】Pentagon Gives Warning on Senkaku Contingency
June 16, 2014 The U.S. Department of Defense has clearly grown more alert to moves of Chinese military, as indicated by an annual report titled “Military and Security Developments Involvin...
【#250】Rescue of Abductees in North Korea Approaches Critical Stage
June 9, 2014 Japan and North Korea agreed in late May to reinvestigate Japanese abductees in North Korea. Does this mean that North Korea's Kim Jong-un regime has decided to return Megumi Yo...
【#249】Putin’s “Pivot” to Asia
June 2, 2014 In covering the May 20-21 Shanghai Summit Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, Japan's news media focused on Chinese President Xi Jinping as hos...
【#248】Questioning President Park’s International Sense
May 26, 2014 What South Korean President Park Geun-hye should do is to coolly identify the true enemies that threaten her country's survival. Undoubtedly, the enemies are North Korea and Ch...
【#247】Japan’s Ambiguous Attitude Caused Comfort Women Problem
May 19, 2014 Chinese joined South Koreans to take advantage of the so-called comfort women problem that has been used as a weapon to defame Japan in such countries as the United States, Can...
【#246】Form Coalition to Contain China’s Ambition
May 12, 2014 China has taken a 19th Century imperialistic approach by unilaterally drawing the so-called nine-dotted line in the South China Sea to plunder island territories from countri...
May 7, 2014 One year has passed since the Sankei Shimbun proposed an outline of the “national constitution of Japan” (compiled by the panel chaired by Tadae Takubo, Vice President of the Japa...