Needed: Scrunity Over Crucial Security Matters Hidden behind the Senkaku and Gas Field Issues
China has brazenly begun drilling for natural gas at the Shirakaba (“Chunxiao” to the Chinese) gas field in the East China Sea. Having earlier brought in drilling equipment, it appears that the Chi…
Why Japan Should Not Dread China – Time to Utilize Japan’s Abundant Resources Through “Urban Mining”
“It looked like a ghost from afar, but turned out to be just a bunch of tall dead pampas grass swaying in the wind.” The foregoing is my rendition of a “senryu” -- ａ satirical 17-syllable tradi…
Hiding Behind the Skirts of Local Prosecutors ――The Cowardly Diplomacy of Kan and Sengoku
こんにちは。 10月から英文のコラムを掲載します。 『週刊新潮』の「日本ルネッサンス」の英語版です。 御興味のある方は英語でも読んで下さい。 櫻井 よしこ Greetings from Tokyo. It is a pleasure to announce the launch of a new project for the i…
NEVER MISCONSTRUE CHINA’S TRUE COLORS IN ITS “NEW COLD WAR” WITH AMERICA
The world has indeed entered an era of a “new cold war.” Declaring that he will pull out from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed with the former Soviet Union, …
