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,...
Toshimitsu Motegi, 61, is considered a sharpest observer of the political world, and he can be frank with his views that Japan possesses strengths that...
The voice of journalism in Okinawa has long been stifled by the stridently anti-military Okinawa Times and Ryukyu Shimpo. The only two local newspapers...
“There’s a tendency to underestimate North Korea’s capabilities for political reasons,” Jenny Town, a leading researcher from John Hopkins University in Washington DC, said...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye speaks to the Japanese press in Tokyo on June 2, 2017 The United Nations Special Rapporteur continues...
East Asia is in the midst of tremendous geopolitical changes. Japanese politicians have preferred to play it safe, frustrating Japanese conservatives who see the...
The “overseas Chinese” community, which exercises great influence in Japan’s economic world, is about to suffer a great split. Taiwanese residents and immigrants, long...
The Lower House of Representatives passed on May 23 the government’s Revised Organized Crime Punishment Law, which includes the provision of a new “anti-terror law,” with...
The House of Representatives member Shinjiro Koizumi of the Liberal Democratic Party is one of the most popular politicians among younger generation in Japan. His proposal...