ARE GOVERNMENT’S SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH GRANTS DISTRIBUTED PROPERLY?
Jiro Yamaguchi, a left-leaning professor of political science at Tokyo’s Hosei University, reportedly said during a rally in 2015 held to protest proposed security legislation: “I want to say thi…
OPPOSITION AND HOSTILE MEDIA OUT TO DESTORY JAPAN
US, British, and French forces bombarded three chemical weapons facilities in Syria with 105 missiles at 9 p.m. on April 13 (10 a.m. April 14 Japan time). The air strikes were in response to an a…
TIME FOR JAPANESE MEDIA TO AWAKEN TO REAL THREATS FACING JAPAN
While the world around us ominously lurches from one unsettling incident to another, the nation’s media are still single-mindedly focused on the “Moritomo” scandal here at home. (Prime Minister S…
BEIJING, PYONGYANG, AND SEOUL DO NOT REALLY WANT NORTH KOREA DENUCLEARIZED
“Xi Jing-pin allegedly treated Kim Jong-un to a \20 million (approximately US$187,000) bottle of Kweichow Maotai during the latter’s recent visit to Beijing. Xi called Kim to the Chinese capital …
HOSTILE ANTI-ABE MEDIA HAMPERING CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION
Addressing the annual convention of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo on March 25, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged party members to make every effort to revise Japan’s pacifist c…
