IS TOKYO UNIVERSITY FULFILLING ITS RESPONSIBILITY AS JAPAN’S TOP EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE?
Professor Yasuo Hasebe, a renowned constitutional scholar requested by the government to serve as an expert witness at a recent session of the Lower House Constitution Commission, threw the Diet …
POLITICAL ELDERS OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITIES OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama was among six one-time political heavyweights who recently voiced strong objections to current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to expand Japan’s intern…
JAPAN ACQUIRES QUALIFICATION AS SOLID PLAYER IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
The role played by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, attests to Japan having finally succeeded in creating a new position for itself as a solid player in international…
CHINA TURNS DEFIANT OVER ITS SEIZURE OF DISPUTED ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA
At the 14th Asian Security Summit held May 29-31 in Singapore, China openly played the villain not bothering to conceal its new found sense of itself as a great power playing by its own rules. Be…
US-CHINA CLASH OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA PROVIDES RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR JAPAN TO REINFORCE ITS POSITION
On May 20, a US P-8A surveillance aircraft flew over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Images released globally the following day showed dozens of Chinese naval vessels deployed in the …
