JAPAN’S INDULGENT LAWS HINDER PREVENTING A SECOND CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Japan’s current question over an emergency law to stem the coronavirus outbreak has aroused controversy over its possible broader use in defense and military policy. To prevent that, Japanese lib…
“GOLDEN WEEK” HOLIDAYS: CHANCE TO REFLECT ON JAPAN’S FUTURE
The state of national emergency declared by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on April 7 was expected to start showing results within two weeks—around April 21. The daily number of confirmed Wuha…
LANDSLIDE ELECTION WIN WILL ENABLE MOON TO IMPLEMENT TOUGHER ANTI-JAPANESE POLICIES
One world leader who has shrewdly turned the Wuhan virus crisis to his advantage is South Korea’s left-leaning Moon Jae-in. Moon’s Democratic Party and its satellite party scored a landslide vict…
CHINA TARGETS WORLD’S KEY CORPORATIONS AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Beijing is taking bold action globally. It is going all out to turn the coronavirus crisis into an opportunity to expand its sphere of influence, obviously sensing a decline in Washington’s leade…
WE MUST MONITOR HOW CORONAVIRUS AFFECTS US-CHINA RELATIONS
The Global Times, an English-language organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), carried an editorial entitled “COVID-19 Blunders Signal End of ‘American Century’” in its March 31 edition. Its a…
INDULGENT LAWS CANNOT SAVE PEOPLE’S LIVES AGAINST WUHAN VIRUS
With new cases of coronavirus infection spiking across Japan, especially in Tokyo, popular Japanese soccer star Shinji Kagawa has made an appeal to all of us. “As you know,” he said, “a large num…
CHINA’S PLOT TO DOMINATE WORLD WITH PHARMACEUTICALS
With the international community thrown into unprecedented chaos by the onslaught from the deadly Wuhan virus, one nation is playing a grand chess game on the world stage, keeping its eyes peeled…
MEDIA BIGGEST OBSTACLE TO OUR FIGHT AGAINST WUHAN VIRUS
How will we respond to the message Prime Minister Shinzo delivered at his coronavirus news conference called urgently on March 14? In asking ourselves this question, we Japanese are, in essence, …
TIME FOR GREATER EFFORTS TO CONTAIN WUHAN PNEUMONIA IN JAPAN
When will the Japanese government lift the restrictive measures against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, including the nationwide closure of all schools? On March 9, a panel of advisors urged…
XI IN DIRE STRAITS WITH COVID-19, SLOW ECONOMY, AND FAILED DIPLOMACY
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a rapid succession of measures last week to stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) that originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei Province. …
