RELUCANT FOREIGN MINISTRY FAILS TO BLOCK ADDITION OF “NANJING MASSACRE” TO UNESCO’S “MEMORY OF WORLD” REGISTER
UNESCO has awarded international heritage status to documents China has submitted on the “Nanjing Incident” of 1937, prompting Japan to warn it may consider cutting off funding to the UN cultural…
JAPAN MUST MAKE NEW RESOLVE TO COPE WITH CYBER THREATS
Daniel Russell, US Assistant Secretary of State in charge of East Asian and Pacific affairs, made some intriguing observations on China’s cyber theft during a press briefing in New York on Octobe…
TO OUTSMART BEIJING, JAPAN MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND WHAT CHINA REALLY IS ABOUT
How will the world move forward from here—with peace and order under a continued “Pax Americana,” or with turmoil and uncertainly under a “Pax Sinica,” President Xi Jinping’s dream of “the great …
JAPAN’S NEW SECURITY LAWS SIGNIFICANTLY DEEPEN TIES BETWEEN TOKYO AND TAIPEI
On September 18, I took an afternoon flight from Tokyo to Taipei to attend the “2015 International Symposium on Cross Taiwan Strait Relations and Asia Pacific Peace and Security” sponsored by the…
ABE EXPLAINS JAPAN NEEDS NEW “PEACE LEGISLATION” NOW
On September 11, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a special guest on my weekly “Genron TV” internet television show, discussing what the pending security legislation will do for Japan’s national int…
