TOP SOUTH KOREAN LAWMAKER ANGERS JAPANESE WITH REVISONIST REMARKS ABOUT HISTORY
On February 18, Moon Hee-sang, the speaker of South Korea’s National Assembly, called Japan a “brazen thief” for demanding an apology and a retraction of his earlier remarks that the emperor of J…
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMPERIAL FAMILIES OF JAPAN AND QING DYNASTY CHINA
I’ve just finished reading The Private Life of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China (Gento-sha, Tokyo; 2019）. It is an engaging book in which author Yasuo Kato does a superb job depicting those in pow…
CAN AMERICA GET WHAT IT WANTS WITH TOUGH CHINA POLICY?
President Trump received Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on January 31 following two days of US-China cabinet-level trade talks at the White House. “I think we’ve made tremendous progress,” an upbeat…
CHINA SEEKS TO DOMINATE SPACE WITH MISSION TO MOON
Living in the center of Tokyo, a bustling metropolis inhabited by 14 million people, I sometimes look up at the sky on a moon-lit night enchanted by the silent grace of the bright moon. Some 380,…
WHY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT MUST BACK NUCLEAR PLANTS EXPORTS MORE VIGOROUSLY
I feel as though the foundation of Japan as an advanced nation is beginning to crumble under its own weight. What we Japanese must particularly be concerned about at this juncture, I believe, is …
