MALEVOLENT ANTI-ABE MEDIA REPORTS DETRIMENTAL TO JAPAN’S NATIONAL INTERESTS
With the discount land-sale scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie freshly dominating media attention, I recently scrutinized the 78-page report (hereafter, the Report) the…
DON’T BE FOOLED BY KIM JONG-UN’S BRINKMANSHIP DIPLOMACY
Last week the world was taken aback by the sudden prospect of a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. But I do not believe that the efforts by Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, and South Korea’s …
CAN LDP MANAGE TO CONSOLIDATE PROPOSALS FOR REVISION OF ARTICLE 9 OF JAPAN’S PACIFIST CONSTITUTION?
On February 28, about 150 members of the two houses of the Diet thronged to the main auditorium at the headquarters of the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) to attend a plenary session of a panel co…
MOON JAE-IN’S EXTRAORDINARY SUBSERVIENCE TO NORTH KOREA
One of history’s most politically manipulated Olympics is over, and now in Pyeongchang we are on to the Paralympics. Meanwhile, behind the breathtaking performances of athletes from more than 90 …
ALLEGED “COMFORT WOMEN” RECRUITER HAD APOLOGY TRIP TO PYONGYANG IN MIND
On February 5, I interviewed Shigeharu Oku, a former member of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) just back from South Korea after being detained for seven months on charges of trespassing and …
