What Japan should seek three-quarters of a century after World War II is to break away from the Yalta systemーa framework for the postwar internation...
In 1853 Commodore Perry visited Japan with a complaint. Japan was not a great power which threatened the U.S. Navy, but as the ranges of sailing shi...
North Korea held a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party (KWP) from December 28-31. Although some 300 full and candi...
The international community, especially Western countries, are casting a stern eye on the suppression of Tibetan and Uyghur human rights in China, t...
Recently I had a talk with former Seoul University professor of economics Lee Yong Hoon, who authored the book Anti-Japan Tribalism. The book became...
The Group of Seven industrial democracies, at their annual summit meeting in August, should have agreed to urge China to recognize Hong Kong’s high-le...
On the 74th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War, I feel that the world is entering a new phase as the international situation has been reversed ...
Recently the U.S. Department of State released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018, in which it analyzed and condemned the...