【#258】Cuisine and Manga Cannot Counter Anti-Japan Propaganda
August 4, 2014 I have criticized the Japanese Foreign Ministry's apology diplomacy for more than 20 years so that I would hardly be surprised to hear about whatever the ministry does. But I g...
【#257】Shameless Media Flourishing in East and West
July 28, 2014 The Asahi Shimbun and The New York Times are similar. Both are eager to defame Japan even by distorting facts and play dumb about their erroneous reports as pointed out by reader...
【#256】Don’t Tolerate China’s Control on International Finance
July 22, 2014 Five major emerging countries have launched an initiative to counter the Bretton Woods system representing the postwar international financial order. Driving the initiative ha...
【#255】Analyzing Asian International Order
July 14, 2014 It is difficult to analyze the international situation in which political, military, economic and other factors are intertwined with short-, medium- and long-term time element...
【#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...