【#309】Perceptions of China Changing in Western Hemisphere
June 22, 2015 At a U.S. National Defense University (NDU) Alumni Seminar in Colombia from 9 to 12 June, I was asked to deliver a speech on China's influences on the Western Hemisphere. Fore...
【#308】Wake up Democratic Party of Japan
June 15, 2015 In 2000, I dared to join the Democratic Party of Japan, then the largest opposition party in Japan, in a bid to develop a political group that could take government from the r...
【#307(Special)】 Does Consensus Call for Waiting for Being Killed?
June 8, 2015 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's attitude of paving the way for Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense is surely right. But some of his remarks can be taken as denyi...
【#306】Funada Should Resign from LDP Post
June 8, 2015 Surprisingly, a witness recommended by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party described Japan's exercise of rights to collective self-defense and the pending national security bil...
【#305】Underwhelming Speech by Japanese Defense Minister
June 1, 2015 At national defense leaders’ Shangri-La Dialogue conference on Asian security in Singapore on May 29-31, the United States and China confronted over China’s land reclamation at...
【#304(Special)】 Five Lies in China’s Defense White Paper
June 1, 2015 China released a new national defense white paper on May 26. It is titled "China's Military Strategy" compared with "China's National Defense" for the previous one published in...
【#303(Special)】 Criticizing Recent Book by Ambassador Muto
May 29, 2015 Masatoshi Muto, Japan's former ambassador to South Korea, has authored a book titled "Truth of Japan-South Korea Confrontation." It has attracted attention by denouncing South ...
【#302】China Demonstrates Capability of Bombing Guam
May 25, 2015 On May 21, Chinese air force planes flew over the Miyako Strait between Okinawa and Miyako Islands in southwestern Japan for a one-day drill in the Western Pacific for the firs...
【#301(Special)】 Prostitution Isn’t Synonymous with Human Trafficking
May 19, 2015 As for so-called comfort women who served Japanese troops during World War II, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview with The Washington Post, published on March 26, “...
【#300】Environment Groups Remain Silent over China’s Reclamation
May 18, 2015 The U.S. Department of Defense has recently announced that China has expanded its land reclamation in the South China Sea to about 8 square kilometers (equivalent to the size o...