(photo: Denis Makarenko / Shut terstock.com)   News ‘Joker’ Becomes a Hot Topic The “Joker” reached $988.51 million, or approximately ¥107.5 billion, at the global box off...

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  Chief Editor’s Monthly Column   In May, North Korea again launched three missiles. Further, they are very near to completing a nuclear missile that can reach North America. U.S. Pres...

  From Welfare State to Future Investment State The Liberal Democratic, Democratic Progressive, Komeito and Communist parties all proposed the same policy in their campaigns for the previous Hous...

  Why does a religion have to promote the strengthening of national defense, including equipping the country with nuclear armaments? The answer is because peaceful life in Asia is being increasin...

  There is no country in the world other than Japan that is more surrounded by nuclear weapon states, but at the same time, is utterly defenseless against such weapons. North Korea has conducted ...

  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe established 3 new pillars and set the aim for Japan’s GDP to 600 trillion yen. It is estimated that it will be achieved in around 2020. In 2014, Japan’s GD...

  World War II brought to light the fundamental disconnect between the East and the West. Distrust, disparate goals, basic philosophic, economic and racial barriers stood in the way of constructi...

  In June this year, China’s Shanghai stock market bubble burst, and stock prices are falling simultaneously around the world. The question is, to what extent this influence will spread. So...

In this chapter, the underlying reasons for Japan’s entry into WWII are discussed, and its drive for freedom for the colonized nations of Asia analogized to the experience of the thirteen origin...