CONTINUED SUPPORT OF UKRAINE SERVES JAPAN’S NATIONAL INTERESTS
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Sergei Surovinkin abruptly announced on November 9 that the Russian military would withdraw from Kherson, the capital of Kherson Oblast (state) …
SHOULD JAPAN GO NUCLEAR UNDER NEW WORLD ORDER?
Famed French historical demographer Emmanuel Todd was in Tokyo on November 3 to deliver a keynote address at a symposium entitled “The World Order after Shinzo Abe.” The occasion was the 15th ann…
XI’S PUTINIZATION EVIDENT FROM STUNNING PERSONNEL DECISIONS
Varied personnel decisions announced during the recently completed 20th National Congress of China’s Communist Party (CCP) and the first plenary session of the CCP Central Committee that followed…
TIME IS RIPE FOR MAXIMUM EFFORTS TO RESOLVE ABDUCTION ISSUE
Some 800 people attended an annual convention in Tokyo on October 23 to pledge renewed maximum efforts to obtain an early release of Japanese abducted by North Korea. The annual gathering was att…





