The International edition of the New York Times recently published an article titled “Whitewashing History in Japan“, written based on an interview from a former Asahi Shimbun reporter named Tak...

After the second Cabinet reshuffle, intensifying media reports rapidly drove Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to dissolve the Lower House. Despite that, he has successfully advanced his foreign policy to bui...

Why Is a Rise in Consumption Tax a Bad Idea? “The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will not stop at 10%. It’ll continue to raise the consumption tax.” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has del...

Why Is a Rise in Consumption Tax a Bad Idea? “Raising the consumption tax will result in an increase in corporate bankruptcies and suicide rates. In April of 1989, Japan introduced a 3% consumpt...

WWII was a battle in which the “righteous Americans defeated the axis of evil that were Japan and Germany”. This has become the “common sense” view of history in the international communit...

America says that the Second World War was a battle between “the fascism (totalitarianism) of Japan, Germany, and Italy,” and “the democracy of the States, England, China and the Sov...

We learned in school that “Japan abandoned militarism and became democratic due to the American occupation.” What were this occupational policies that changed America from an enemy nation ...

Shiro Takahashi Professor at Meisei University Born 1950, Hyogo Prefecture. After graduating from Waseda University Graduate School, became visiting researcher at Stanford University’s Hoover Re...

  Hiromichi Moteki “Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact”, Head of Office Born 1941, Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo University, Department of Economics, worked for Fuj...

The online version of the New York Times recently featured an article entitled “Pressure in Japan to Forget Sins of War”. The article focused on the use of forced Korean labor during the w...