GlobalTalk 21

A bipartisan group of 140 US Congresspersons sent a letter to President Obama urging him “to pursue the TPP negotiations without any count...

Stephen Walt is one of my favorite—possibly the favorite—political scientists. In “ It's Not the Guns of August -- It's the Trenche...

“There’s someone [Akihisa Nagashima, the DPJ defense hawk] who goes the United States and says something about collective self-defense that...

Go back far enough, and most sovereign states have their roots in genocide and ethnic cleansing. Heck, the whole “New” World would look ver...

In case anyone wants to know: 1)       Some individuals and organizations to be named later to be added to the list of asset freezes. ...

I go to PM Office website to look for English translation of Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga’s July 28 announcement of Japan’s additional sanc...

Collective self-defense means lashing any overseas projections of Japanese military power even more tightly into the US hub-and-spoke netwo...

A post on a public forum included the following amusing proposition, which touched off the subsequent exchange between me and a real live h...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-17/malaysia-jet-shot-down-in-ukraine-near-russia-ifx-says.html

Not one of my best performances. Need to do this more often. Practice, practice, practice. But did that commentator threaten Japan with...

My crib sheet for China Radio International panel discussion, later in the day, just in case I fail to get my licks in. (The questions, in i...

The old man was reminiscing about his experiences immediately after the war. Discharged from the Imperial Army as a suicide-bomber trainee,...

What happened after the event is well-chronicled in the Japanese media ( Yomiuri providing the most extensive online coverage, followed by...

As John Campbell reminded me, it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up, and I guess that was why I just knew this story was going to blow up. ...

I looked for the English version of a Sankei editorial and came across the masthead/nameplate The Japan Times-SHIMBUN. I’ve heard that oppo...

Able-bodied Korean men were shipped out to the Japanese archipelago to work in the mines and factories there during WW II. Read these first...

The following commentary ends differently depending on how I feel that day. I manage to surprise most foreigners when I tell them that...

This time, it’s going up after a one-day delay. If this situation continues, I will post here immediately, without delay. We’re lucky t...

The following column was intended for my MIGA column, but I haven’t heard back from the editor for a whole week and counting, so here it is...

Prime Minister Abe’s surprise May 29 afternoon announcement that North Korea had agreed to comprehensive survey on the abductees and specif...