LDP’S SECURITY RESEARCH COMMISSION MUST NOT BETRAY THE PEOPLE
Does the Security Research Commission (SRC) of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party have tunnel vision about Japan’s security needs? Would it be impossible to expect the commission headed by forme…
NOBLE BATTLE OF UKRAINIANS TO DEFEND HOMELAND TO THE DEATH
As of this writing on March 15, the number of women, children, and senior citizens who have fled Ukraine has reached an estimated 2.8 million. Husbands and sons have stayed put to fight to save t…
KISHIDA SHOULD LEARN FROM UKRAINIAN CRISIS
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared his offensive in Ukraine “will continue until our objectives are achieved.” Describing Russia as “one of the great nuclear powers,” Putin has the wor…
JAPAN SHOULD LEARN FROM GERMANY’S HISTORIC POLICY SHIFT
A crisis can strike anytime—out of the blue on a scale beyond all imagination. Dialogue or friendship in the international arena means little to an adversary that only believes in power. The only…
TO NURTURE CREATIVITY OUR UNIVERSITIES MUST TAKE NEW APPROACH
Hisashi Yamamoto, a prominent organic chemist frequently mentioned as a candidate for the next Nobel Prize, urges young Japanese to have the sensitivity to be moved by new encounters in their dai…
