IN MEMORY OF SHINZO ABE
Shinzo Abe was assassinated on July 8 on the campaign trail in Nara, western Japan. Why was he killed? Why weren’t his bodyguards able to stop the assassin after the first shot? Why was the assas…
CLOSER INDIA-RUSSIA PARTNERSHIP POISED TO AFFECT WORLD ORDER
Russia’s incursion into Ukraine has created a sea change in international relations centering around oil and natural gas supplies, thrusting the world into a new era with the world’s balance of p…
MEGUMI YOKOTA ALIVE 45 YEARS AFTER ABDUCTION BY NORTH KOREA
Megumi Yokota is alive and well. In 1977, when she was 13, Megumi was abducted in Niigata Prefecture by North Korean agents. That was the critical point of a front-page scoop in the June…
DID JUSTICE MINISTRY LEAK INFORMATION TO SAFEGUARD SOLE CUSTODY?
No matter how I read it, there was something odd about the lead article in the June 20th edition of The Mainichi Shimbun. Treated as a scoop, the piece covered a proposed legal reform for child c…
ECONOMIC SECURITY IS NEW KEY TO NATIONAL SECURITY
In his latest book, China 2049: Economic Challenges of a Rising Global Power (Brookings Institution Press; 2020), Michael Pillsbury says he was taken in by China over many years. Pillsbury, a pro…
