Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), announced plans to submit the Diet a draft new Constitution by...
The recent news of Otto Warmbier’s death has shocked the United States and the rest of the world—except for Japan. Sadly, Japan has long understood,...
A segment of the foreign English-language news media has taken up the report of David Kaye, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right...
There have recently been 300,000 serious cyber attacks around the world, and former United States National Security Agency (NSA) Inspector General Joel Brenner, 69, believes North...
India’s longest bridge—all 9.15 km of it over the Lohit river and connecting Dhola and Sadiya in Assam—was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on...
This article—the last in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1: Comfort...
On Friday, June 16, the special, one-time law that allows the emperor’s abdication will be promulgated. Except for the Liberal Party, whose members left...
This article—the 3rd in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1:...
The protesters of US base in Okinawa This article—the 2nd of a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017...
President of South Korea Moon Jae-in visited the disputed island of Takeshima on July, 2016 when he was an opposition leader. Takeshima is an inherent part of...
The abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents decades ago is a national tragedy. It is designated by the Abe administration as the “Most...
The world is at a turning point in the stability of the 21st Century. Since the 1990s, amid the freedom of the post-Soviet era,...