Local assembly members throughout Japan have been unafraid to call out China by name on its human rights abuses. The Japanese government must find similar courage.
Talks and incursions seem to go hand-in-hand in the Chinese playbook. A look at how the Xi Jinping administration appears set to continue on its belligerent...
Pointing out two glaring false narratives by foreign countries, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals will ask the Kishida administration to emphasize public relations for historical...
We cannot compromise our principles for the sake of cooperation. Effectively deterring China relies on collaboration with allies and other friendly countries.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s newly appointed advisor on human rights issues should use his strong presence in the international field to confront China’s human rights abuses.
If Kishida is chosen prime minister again after the October 31 elections, he should immediately take away the Minister of Infrastructure, Land, and Transportation post from...
Right premise, wrong approach: Ching returns to his theme of wanting to decenter the nation-state in East Asia and find a new solution to the “anti-Japanism”...
Regional order and steady growth in the Indo-Pacific can only be materialized by states that respect freedom and democracy, rather than authoritarianism.
The Progressive Club Sandwich assumes Western moral superiority and Japanese backwardness. India offers a very different suite of flavors.
China’s human rights violations and nuclear threat bring back memories of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that sparked the 1980 Moscow...
“If your younger brother participates in the demonstration, your relatives will be put in prison,” one relative was reportedly told, according to his brother in Japan.
JINF’s 2021 Kokkiken award goes to American author Toshi Yoshihara, with special Kokkiken Awards to two South Korean researchers, for helping Japan and the world better...