DOES CHINA’S PERVERSE SUPPRESSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS REFLECT GROWING DOMESTIC INSTABILITY UNDER XI JINPING?
Last Friday I decided to watch the NHK evening news show The World Now, as the program that day dealt with a topic of particular interest to me: Why has China been intensifying its suppression of…
NEEDED: PRECISE RECOGNITION OF DECEPTION AS ESSENSE OF CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY
A former editorial writer of the People’s Daily, official organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), recently contributed an article to the liberal Chuo Koron entitled Peace and Quiet in Asia Wi…
JAPAN CAN MAKE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO MANKIND’S FUTURE THROUGH BIOTECHNOLOGY
There are few Japanese businessmen who can claim to be more active in the international arena than Joichi Ito—a venture capitalist and angel investor who has reached where he is today by steadfas…
CHINA’S AGGRESSIVE EXPANSION SCHEME IN THE EAST CHINA SEA
The New York Times carried on the front page of its April 10 edition images of a number of Chinese ships reclaiming land around Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. On May…
IS THE ASAHI SHIMBUN QUALIFIED TO CRITICIZE REMARKS BY AUTHOR HYAKUTA?
If we Japanese truly wish to safeguard our basically sound democratic society, we must naturally make every effort to respect freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I believe freedom of spee…
