XI’S PUTINIZATION EVIDENT FROM STUNNING PERSONNEL DECISIONS
Varied personnel decisions announced during the recently completed 20th National Congress of China’s Communist Party (CCP) and the first plenary session of the CCP Central Committee that followed…
TIME IS RIPE FOR MAXIMUM EFFORTS TO RESOLVE ABDUCTION ISSUE
Some 800 people attended an annual convention in Tokyo on October 23 to pledge renewed maximum efforts to obtain an early release of Japanese abducted by North Korea. The annual gathering was att…
DON’T LET FINANCIAL BUREAUCRACY DICTATE JAPAN’S DEFENSE SPENDING
The international situation can change in a flash. NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) has just started its annual nuclear exercises, with 14 of its 30 members participating, including …
FINANCE MINISTRY NEEDS TO LOOSEN PURSE STRINGS ON DEFENSE SPENDING
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been on a missile-launching spree since September 25, firing a total of at least 12 ballistic missiles over seven days as of (three in September and four as of…
IS NHK TRYING TO REWRITE HISTORY NOW THAT SHINZO ABE IS GONE?
In its popular “Today’s Close-Up” on September 14, the public broadcast station NHK featured Hitoshi Tanaka in a program entitled “Behind the Scenes of First Japan-North Korea Summit: Recollectio…
