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...
A lecture by author Naoki Hyakuta, scheduled for June 10 at the Hitotsubashi University, has been cancelled due to pressure from various groups opposed to his...
Japan may be facing a population decline, and observers say this could limit its inherent potential for economic growth, but Akira Kiyota can convince...
Rights advocates roundly condemned in a recent symposium the violations being committed by China in Baluchistan, the biggest of the four provinces of Pakistan. ...
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...
United Nations Office at Geneva David Kaye In April of 2016, United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye visited Japan to study the state of...
In the aftermath of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, the global nuclear energy sector has had the busiest year in almost three decades. Sixty reactors...