The Senkaku Islands are located near Ishigaki Island in the Ryukyu Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, an... Read More
Takeshima Island Issue
This island issue is a territorial issue between Japan and South Korea and began after the conclusio... 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
China’s New Dictatorship Era
The National People’s Congress was held in March. China reported an ominous amendment of the constit... Read More
Only a few immigrants live in Japan?
It has long been said that Japan is a very isolated country and its society is composed of almost on... 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
Focus Shift from the Korean Peninsula to the Asian Pacific Region
A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea in November 2017. North Korea has started to dig tren... 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
North Korea’s Provocations and the lukewarm Responses of the World Powers
The US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and its strike group have already been in operation in the regio... 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