NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR JAPAN AS WASHINGTON TOUGHENS STANCE AGAINST CHINA
“From the mountain ranges of the Himalayas to the waters of Vietnam’s Exclusive Zone to the Senkaku Islands and beyond, Beijing has a pattern of instigating territorial disputes. The world should…
BEIJING PURSUES “WOLF-WARRIOR” DIPLOMACY WITH LIES AND INTIMIDATION
Beijing has resorted to twisted means to abruptly end the democracy and freedom it originally promised Hong Kong until 2047 when the former British colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. The st…
BOLTON WARNS JAPAN TO IMPLEMENT MEASURES TO DEFEND ITSELF
The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF), a private think tank that I head in Tokyo, holds a study group meeting every Friday morning. At our meetings, prominent scholars, researcher…
KATSUMI OHIRA’S LIFELONG FIGHT FOR HIV-TAINED BLOOD VICTIMS
Katsumi Ohira, my long-time friend, passed away recently at 70. Two days before his demise, I called on him at his residence in Tokyo. He lay in his bed, obviously in great pain but I could tell …
NEEDED: NEW POLICY ENABLING PREEMPTIVE ENEMY BASE ATTACKS
As water seeks its own level, so China quietly reaches out to weaker nations as targets of domination far and wide across the globe. With the US preoccupied by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and …
MEMORY OF “NATIONAL HUMILIATION” PROPELS CHINA TO PURSUE HEGEMONY
The Wuhan-originated coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 430,000 lives to date, but China—its government and people—has shown no repentance. Instead, it is going all out to formulate a new…
REQUIEM FOR SHIGERU YOKOTA
Shigeru Yokota died of old age on June 5 in a hospital near Tokyo at 87, unable to fulfill his dream of reuniting with his daughter abducted at age 13 by North Korea in 1977. His widow Sakie is c…
CHINA’S AGGRESSION IN AUSTRALIA IS WAKE-UP CALL FOR JAPAN
Australia finds itself in a dangerous position. China is taking over the country with most of its citizens unaware of what is happening. Although it may be too late to regain control of some indu…
LIBERAL MEDIA SHOWS ITS ANTI-ABE BIAS IN COVERAGE OF KUROKAWA
On May 25, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared an end to Japan’s state of emergency, loosening restrictions in five remaining prefectures—Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Hokkaido. The restric…
SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO PROSECUTORS OFFICE LAW AMENDMENT
In a surprise move, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on May 18 that he had given up on passing a controversial bill revising the Public Prosecutors Office Act (PPOA) aimed at extending the ten…
