TIME FOR JAPANESE MEDIA TO AWAKEN TO REAL THREATS FACING JAPAN
While the world around us ominously lurches from one unsettling incident to another, the nation’s media are still single-mindedly focused on the “Moritomo” scandal here at home. (Prime Minister S…
BEIJING, PYONGYANG, AND SEOUL DO NOT REALLY WANT NORTH KOREA DENUCLEARIZED
“Xi Jing-pin allegedly treated Kim Jong-un to a \20 million (approximately US$187,000) bottle of Kweichow Maotai during the latter’s recent visit to Beijing. Xi called Kim to the Chinese capital …
HOSTILE ANTI-ABE MEDIA HAMPERING CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION
Addressing the annual convention of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo on March 25, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged party members to make every effort to revise Japan’s pacifist c…
MALEVOLENT ANTI-ABE MEDIA REPORTS DETRIMENTAL TO JAPAN’S NATIONAL INTERESTS
With the discount land-sale scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie freshly dominating media attention, I recently scrutinized the 78-page report (hereafter, the Report) the…
DON’T BE FOOLED BY KIM JONG-UN’S BRINKMANSHIP DIPLOMACY
Last week the world was taken aback by the sudden prospect of a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. But I do not believe that the efforts by Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, and South Korea’s …
