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East Asia/International Politics

America’s new Focus on Taiwan

Posted on September 20, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen made stopovers in America during her trip to Paraguay and Belize in ... Read More

Foreign affairs/True Info Japan

The Yasukuni Shrine Dispute – Neglecting Japan’s domestic Politics and thinking about the War Histories

Posted on August 7, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

Closing in upon Japan’s commemoration of war’s end on August 15th, the question of whether the Japan... Read More

East Asia/International Politics

A Different Focus on the Korean Peninsula

Posted on June 21, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

Right after the meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, US President Donald Trump announced an interm... Read More

History/True Info Japan

150 Years after the Meiji Restoration

Posted on April 27, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

The Tokugawa shogunate (feudal Japanese samurai government), which ruled over 260 years in Japan, re... Read More

Society/True Info Japan

Only a few Refugees in Japan?

Posted on January 21, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

The European mass media quite often harshly report on the allegedly very small number of refugees th... Read More

International Politics/North Korea

An Update on North Korea’s ongoing Provocations

Posted on September 7, 2017 by kumiko-ahr

North Korea’s missile tests seem not to come to an end although the US military has already strength... Read More

East Asia/International Politics

Smoldering Tensions on the Korean Peninsula: Will 2017 see landmark changes?

Posted on March 30, 2017 by kumiko-ahr

On 6 March 2017 North Korea fired four missiles in the Japanese See; three landed in Japan’s EEZ 300... Read More

Asia/International Politics

Time to Rethink Defense Policies

Posted on November 20, 2016 by kumiko-ahr

The whole world has paid attention to the US presidential election. Although the major mass media co... Read More

International Politics/North Korea

North Korea and its World: An Attempt at an Explanation

Posted on January 13, 2016 by kumiko-ahr

North Korea allegedly conducted a hydrogen bomb test on January 6, 2016. There is still little known... Read More

International Politics/Japan

Japan: Insular Thinking and the Challenges of the factual World beyond

Posted on August 5, 2015 by kumiko-ahr

Japan’s recently passed security bills in the lower house regarding the collective self-defense righ... Read More

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Kumiko Ahr
Kumiko Ahr

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