JAPAN SHOULD SEIZE COMING TPP NEGOTIATIONS SETTLEMENT AS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO REJUVENATE ITS AILING AGRICULTURE
In the highland lettuce farming village of Kawakami in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, the average farmer earns roughly 25 million yen (approximately US$208,000) a year. The village has managed…
LEGITIMACY OF RECENT REFERENDUM ON YONAGUNI QUESTIONABLE
“I am very ashamed of seeing such an election take place here. It will long keep me from looking the people of the rest of Japan in the eye.” These were the remarks by Kenichi Itokazu, ch…
FUKUSHIMA’S RECOVERY STARTS WITH LOCAL MUNICIPALITEIS STANDING ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET
Nearly four years after it was hit by a catastrophic earthquake, recovery in Fukushima Prefecture remains slow, 120,000 of its citizens still living in temporary relief housing away from their de…
CHINA USES ISIL BRUTALITY AS CONVENIENT EXCUSE TO CRACK DOWN ON UYGHURS
Fourteen years ago the Chinese government used the “9/11” terrorist attacks on the US to opportunely designate Uyghur activists as terrorists and increase its suppression of that minority in its …
NEEDED: FIRST-RATE INTELLIGENCE AND FORCE TO COPE WITH ISLAMIC STATE
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which brutally murdered two Japanese hostages recently, has threatened Japan by vowing to “carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are fou…
