CHINA’S MILITARY EXPANSION IS CRUCIAL TEST OF JAPAN’S POSTURE TOWARDS NATIONAL DEFENSE
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has released its annual report to the US Congress on military and security developments in China for 2018. Its content is solid and convincing, making one keenl…
ASAHI SHIMBUN’S TWO-FACED COVERAGE OF THE “COMFORT WOMEN”
For over three decades beginning in the early 1990s, the Asahi Shimbun continued to play up the story of a self-styled “comfort women” recruiter named Seiji Yoshida. Yoshida maintained that the …
TRUMP, GERMANY, RUSSIA, AND WHAT JAPAN NEEDS TO LEARN
During his talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg prior to the NATO summit in Brussels July 11-12, Donald Trump railed at Germany as a “captive of Russia.” Trump was infuriat…
JAPAN TAKES EMERGENCY MEASURES TO PREVENT WORSENING CHILD ABUSE
Last March 2, a five-year-old girl died in the emergency room of a hospital in Meguro Ward in Tokyo due to physical abuse by her parents. When proclaimed dead, Yua Funato weighed 11.6 ki…
WHAT TRUMP’S HARSH CRITICISM OF GERMANY MEANS TO JAPAN
I am writing this column on July 16, just hours before Donald Trump is slated to meet Vladimir Putin for a US-Russia summit in Helsinki. How the summit will turn out is anyone’s guess. Bu…
