US-CHINA WAR OVER TAIWAN WOULD TURN JAPAN INTO BATTLEFIELD
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a prominent US think tank headquartered in Washington, released a report on January 9, summing up the results of a study it had done ent…
NATION WITHOUT STRONG GOVERNMENT-MILITARY RELATIONS IS DOOMED
In marking Japan’s fresh resolve to safeguard our security, it is critical that we all make a greater effort this year to understand the important distinction between military strategy and tactic…
JAPANESE MUST BECOME GEOPOLITICALLY WISER AND STRONGER IN 2023
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine will not end until Vladimir Putin gives up fighting. Following the surprise pre-Christmas visit to Washington by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,…
JAPAN TAKES HISTORIC STEP TO BOLSTER NATIONAL SECURITY
The revision of three key documents announced by the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on December 16 will bring about a fundamental change in Japan’s posture toward its national sec…
CAN CHINESE SOCIALISM DEFEAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM AS XI VOWS?
Strategically speaking, the timing of the visit to Taipei December 10-12 by Koichi Hagiuda, Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, couldn’t have been bett…