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LATEST ARTICLES ( 184 )

• Hope and Despair After the Midterm Election

  

  So many evaluate the results of the last of the last US midterm election in so many ways. Trump's Republican won in the Senate, but lost in the House. It is... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Book Review: “Trumpocracy” by David Frum

  The Trump administration is in a mess as shown in too many scandals and leaks. Some muckraking books are published, and draw extensive public attention. People... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Deadly Appeasement to Putin in Helsinki

  

  Confident Putin and nervous Trump at the press conference. It has turned out that American foreign policy pundits and intelligence community were right to... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Will the Trump-Putin Summit Destroy the World Order?

  

  The top leader meeting of the United States and Russia could change the strategic landscape of great power rivalries, particularly in Europe and the Middle East. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can Macron Represent Moral Universality of the West?

  

  At the end of this April, leaders from Japan, France, and Germany visited the White House one by one. Among them, President Emmanuel Macron of France gave an... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Can Atlantic Democracies and Japan Coact Against Russia and China?

  The transition of international politics of values to geopolitics turns the world increasingly more unstable. During the Cold War, the cohesion of liberal... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Neocons Do Not Give Credits to Bolton

  The global community was startled when President Donald Trump reshuffled the cabinet to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Without the Ambassador in Seoul, How Can Trump Have Leverage Over North Korea?

  In the North Korean crisis, there is a growing chasm between Sunshine policy-oriented South Korea and pressure-oriented Japan and the United States. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Foreign Policy That Has Been Severely Distorted by Trump

  Ever since Donald Trump won the nightmarish election last November, foreign policy communities in the United States and abroad are keen to watch whether he woul... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Risk of Hosting Trump on His Visit to East Asia

  President Donald Trump is visiting East Asia early November. On his visit to Japan, North Korea and trade will be key agendas of the bilateral meeting with Prim... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Britain’s post-Brexit Global Strategy and Japan

  Brexit has left Britain no choice but to deepen relations with the United States, the Commonwealth, and other major regional powers in the world. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can Macron Boost France’s Standing in the Western Alliance?

  President Emmanuel Macron shows consummate diplomatic skills to boost France’s position in Europe and on the global stage. While he had a successful meeting to... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Don’t Dismiss Insult to Akie Abe’s “English Fluency”

  At the last G20 Hamburg summit, President Donald Trump sat next to Akie Abe, and said that the Japanese First Lady was so inept at speaking English that she... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Should Abstain from Getting Involved in Diplomacy

  

  Quite deplorably, it has turned out that President Donald Trump has not changed his America First campaign promise during the election, and more painfully, he... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Couldn’t Abe Have Mediated Merkel and Trump at G7?

  Shortly after the NATO and the G7 summits this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s commented bitterly to question the validity of the alliance with the... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Trump Really More Resolute Than Obama?

  President Donald Trump’s surprise attack against Assad’s Syria for their use of nerve gas astonished the global public as he was reluctant to intervene there. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Third Times, Selected for International Publication

  I am very delighted to notify that my article to the Japan Forum on International Relations was selected for international publication. It is entitled, “The... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can Germany Really Lead Western Democracies?

  Can we expect Germany to be the bearer of global morals and norms, such as human rights and free trade? Normally, hardly anyone asks a question like this, but... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Dangerous Nature of America First

  Since the election campaign, President Donald Trump has been stressing the foreign policy key word of “America First”, which raises critical concerns among... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Has Made America a Trouble Spot on Human Rights

  The United States has been assuming herself an indispensable nation to promote democracy and freedom throughout the world. Since American values are deeply... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY