#147 TPP Controversy Testing Conservatism
June 25, 2012 Ahead of Japan, Canada and Mexico have been allowed to participate in negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. The two countries offered to join the TPP tal...
#146 Noda Should Dissolve Lower House for General Election
June 18, 2012 Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda left Tokyo in the evening of June 17 for a Group of 20 summit meeting in Mexico, after seeing his ruling Democratic Party of Japan and two major oppositi...
#145 “Asian Concert” to Counter China
June 11, 2012 The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals and India’s Vivekananda International Foundation, known as the VIF, held discussions in Tokyo on June 3 and 4 as part of their joint stud...
#144 Limitations of Japan’s Postwar Regime Surfacing at Symposium
June 4, 2012 An international symposium is to be held on June 4 in Tokyo to discuss how best to expand security cooperation between Japan and India, the two major Asian democracies exposed to China...
#143 Japan Should Organize Rebuttal to Comfort Women Allegation
May 28, 2012 The comfort woman issue has surged again since last year. This is the fourth time for the issue to surge. In the first incident, the Asahi Shimbun in 1991 erroneously reported traded K...
#142 Clear Principles Required for Japan-U.S. Partnership
May 21, 2012 I visited Washington, D.C. from May 6 through 13 as a member of a delegation from parliamentary and private organizations supporting Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea. As susp...
#141 Chunichi Has Forgotten Missions of Press
May 14, 2012 The paper once accepted opinion ad The Chunichi Shimbun has refused to carry an opinion advertisement of a “National Movement to Support (Nagoya Mayor Takashi) Kawamura’s Remarks an...
#140 Where Has Tough Vietnam Gone?
May 7, 2012 In early May, I led a delegation of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals to visit the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. We exchanged views with people from such Vietnamese think tan...
#139 Amend Constitution in Pursuit of Peace
May 1, 2012 As Japan observes the 60th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, debate is growing on its constitution. The question each Japanese citizen must answer is why Japan has failed e...
#138 Let’s Pay Tax to Tokyo to Support Senkaku Purchase
April 23, 2012 The Liberal Democratic Party’s Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara has postponed his China visit. As his father, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, unveiled the Tokyo metropolitan ...