Japan
January 28, 2016
Brad Glosserman, executive director of the Pacific Forum at the American think tank CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), announced that the ‘three arrows’ of Abeno...
January 12, 2016
2016 marks 70 years since the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). In order to reassess its contents, the 3rd IMTFE research conference was held at Kokushikan University on...
January 7, 2016
On January 6, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, the fourth nuclear test since 2006. While the world was still scrambling to figure out exactly what this tes...
December 30, 2015
A foreign minister meeting was recently held in Seoul, South Korea over the Comfort Women Problem, consequently coming to a mutual agreement. The points of agreement were as follows: Pri...
December 20, 2015
At Princeton University, a group of Black American students occupied the President’s room, demanding that the institution erase the name of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. ...
December 16, 2015
“The reason why the ‘Laws of Justice’ is taught now is to create a ‘world we can believe in’, for we all have the right to live in such a world.” Those were the words of Founde...
December 10, 2015
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...
December 8, 2015
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...
December 1, 2015
The Question: Q. As a Japanese person, I think we ought to embrace both tolerance to accept a multitude a different values, while having the strength to explicitly state things when needed. Ple...
November 21, 2015
The controversy over the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues and will continue, imbuing current and future generations with the task of disputing this catastrophic ...