Alexis de Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution is in vogue in China. Written by de Tocqueville in his later years, you can find the characteristics and causes of the French Revolution...

Ten years have passed since the Iraq War. Many pundits found it difficult to justify the war. For that reason, they have judged the war as a futile endeavor. They have also suggested that the failed o...

Because WMDs were not found, the Iraq War was regarded as ‘wrong’ and ‘unjust’, and even some pundits’ have used the words ‘war crime’. This has become the very reason that the U.S. is now taking a ve...

Kan Ito Kan Ito is an international political analyst. Born in 1953. Graduated from Tokyo University’s Faculty of Economics. Studied American Political History and International Relations at Cor...

Main Examples of the Post-War Diplomacy of Atonement / Making Apologies 1965 The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and South Korea Japan and South Korea both abandoned the right to claim compens...

-Why We Can’t Wait- (Q and A session) This lecture by Master Ryuho Okawa was delivered at the Happy Science General Headquarters on November 9, 2012 Question: The American people are suffering through...

New Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping at a Conference (left corner) Photograph: Reuter/ Aflo In November, right after the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party took place in Beij...

Little by little, China is beginning its move towards its ‘global empire’. Masaru Soma, a China expert capable of interpreting the power struggle in the Zhongnanhai, its political centre, provid...

Kan Ito Born in 1953, Kan Ito is an international political analyst. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo and studied American political history and international rela...

Russia's President Putin shook hands with Chairman Hu Jintao at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Beijing Summit, which was made up of China, Russia, and four Central Asian nations (June 2012)...