GlobalTalk 21

- Key things to watch out for in Abe-Trump meeting Anything out of kilter from the following. Because if there is, that will be the big...

The fundamental problem with Abenomics is that Mr. Abe does not have a coherent perspective on economic reform to work from, whether from p...

A close friend of mine who read “ The dead people of America really don’t want Hillary Clinton to be president ” and asked if we “Japanese ...

I am quoted here . Here are the salient parts of the two exchanges behind it. "…there has been less attention on the decline in th...

I whacked out the following answers to the questions from a media organization. I know that it will not use a certain part of it in its rep...

I also found that the CRI website claims that I said that “ the security bills go against Japan's pacifist constitution ” when it passe...

1: The China-ROK-Japan Trilateral Summit is expected to be resumed over the weekend after a 3-year hiatus. Can you first give us a brief in...

Let’s see… Cheer up friends of America in the Middle East: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt, check; King Abdullah, Jordan, check; ...

There, I’ve said it. There has been a lot of public doodling by the media and analysts around the progress, impasses and, in the fevere...

If Japanese media reports are to be believed, China is officially disappointed that Prime Minister Abe did not assume responsibility and So...

Good friend Paul Sracic has been invited to attend Prime Minister Abe’s speech before a joint session of Congress, so I decided to give his...

Actually, they are two of my comments on the draft of a weekly newsletter. They went largely unheeded, alas, but good friend Tag Murphy sen...

The following is the memo that I typed out on Wednesday for a Thursday talk-and-Q&A lunch for a group of people from the embassies in T...