JAPAN MUST PREVENT “BATTLESHIP ISLAND” FROM TURNING INTO ANOTHER “COMFORT WOMEN” ISSUE
The monthly magazine Hanada ran a startling article by Mitsuhiko Fujii in its August 2017 issue. As is widely known in Japan, Radhika Coomaraswamy, a special rapporteur for the United Nat…
JAPANESE DETAINED IN KOREA FOR DAMAGING MEMORIAL DEDICATED BY CON MAN RESPOSIBLE FOR “COMFORT WOMEN” LIES
In the late 1970s, Seiji Yoshida stepped forward as a World War II “comfort women” recruiter, spreading blatant lies about having coerced dozens of young Korean women into sexual servitude for th…
YAEYAMA-NIPPO BRINGS NEW PERSPECTIVE TO OKINAWA
Over the years, the people of Okinawa Prefecture have been subjected to helplessly distorted news coverage by two dominant liberal local dailies—the Ryukyu Shimpo and the Okinawa Times. As a resp…
CHINA THREAT REFLECTED IN DOD’S ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS
On June 6, the US Department of Defense (DOD) released its annual report on China to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2017. Analyzing each of …
US DEFENSE SECRETARY’S VIEW ON ASIAN SECURITY SERVES AS WELCOME STABILIZER
The annual Asia Security Summit in Singapore, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, is a very useful venue for understanding the key security challenges affecting the Asia-Pacific region, especi…
