Secret Minutes of 2007 North-South Summit Could Affect Outcome of South Korean Presidential Election
South Korea’s presidential election, slated for December 19, is showing growing signs of being an election to avenge the deaths of two past presidents – Park Chung-hee, who was assassinated 33 year…
Japan Needs Full-Fledged National Military Force in View of the Chinese Threat
As an independent and sovereign nation, how should Japan cope with the multitude of threats which now assail it from all sides? I eagerly look forward to the lower house election slated for Decembe…
Japan’s New Administration Must Make Every Effort to Resolve the Abduction Issue
Despite North Korea’s stubborn insistence that Megumi Yokota, the 13-year-old junior high school girl kidnapped by North Korea 35 years ago, “died in 1994,” there is strong evidence that she was ac…
The 14th Dalai Lama Spells Out A New International Role for Japan
An atmosphere of intense excitement filled the auditorium of the Diet Members’ Office Building in Nagata-cho, central Tokyo, on November 13 as 134 bipartisan members of the Japanese Diet and 98 pro…
Conservatives Must Learn to Overlook Minor Differences for the Common Goal of Revising the Japanese Constitution
“I wish to serve my country as long as I live.” So declared Tokyo’s firebrand governor Shintaro Ishihara (80) on October 25 as he announced his resignation to form a new political party. I …
