FICTIONAL MOVIE ENFLAMES ANTI-JAPANESE SENTIMENT IN SOUTH KOREA
On September 9, I invited Professor Oh Seon-hwa of Takushoku University to my weekly Internet TV show to exchange views on the present status of anti-Japanese sentiment in South Korea. A naturali…
OBAMA’S FAILED POLICIES COMPEL JAPAN TO RESHAPE ITS OWN SECURITY MEASURES
The recent G20 (Group of Twenty) summit held September 4-5 in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit that followed in Vient…
STRONG INFERIORITY COMPLEX DRIVES CHINA TO EXPANSIONISM
For such a powerful country, the Chinese have a surprisingly strong sense of victimization. They frequently talk about having historically been “deprived of territory and assets” by foreign power…
Former SDF Officer Asks What It Means to Defend One’s Country
Reading Sukeyasu Ito’s Can You Die for Your Country? (Tokyo: Bunshun Shinsho, 2016), I was brought to tears. In this book, Ito asks what it means to defend a country and its people. From…
CHINA’S SEIZURE OF JAPANESE ISLANDS IN EAST CHINA SEA BECOMING REAL POSSIBILITY
Since the devastating ruling against Beijing’s South China Sea territorial claims by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on July 12, China has adopted an increasingly hard-line policy…
