The Yasukuni Shrine Dispute – Neglecting Japan’s domestic Politics and thinking about the War Histories
Closing in upon Japan’s commemoration of war’s end on August 15th, the question of whether the Japan... Read More
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A Different Focus on the Korean Peninsula
Right after the meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, US President Donald Trump announced an interm... Read More
150 Years after the Meiji Restoration
The Tokugawa shogunate (feudal Japanese samurai government), which ruled over 260 years in Japan, re... Read More
Only a few Refugees in Japan?
The European mass media quite often harshly report on the allegedly very small number of refugees th... Read More
An Update on North Korea’s ongoing Provocations
North Korea’s missile tests seem not to come to an end although the US military has already strength... Read More
Smoldering Tensions on the Korean Peninsula: Will 2017 see landmark changes?
On 6 March 2017 North Korea fired four missiles in the Japanese See; three landed in Japan’s EEZ 300... Read More
Time to Rethink Defense Policies
The whole world has paid attention to the US presidential election. Although the major mass media co... Read More
North Korea and its World: An Attempt at an Explanation
North Korea allegedly conducted a hydrogen bomb test on January 6, 2016. There is still little known... Read More
Japan: Insular Thinking and the Challenges of the factual World beyond
Japan’s recently passed security bills in the lower house regarding the collective self-defense righ... Read More
What’s going on in Asia?
The European nations are quite busy recently with Greek’s financial issues, the Ukraine conflict and... Read More