Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Tom Berger on Japanese Apologies

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I have been critical of Tom Berger before, but his comments in this email interview is about as balanced and perceptive as it gets. Incide...

Why Has the Chinese Response Been Muted?

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It’s not too difficult to find good reasons why the Chinese response to Prime Minister Abe’s visit has been muted and passive compared to t...
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Administrative Measures as a Political Tool and the Extraterritorial Reach of Anti-Trust Law

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“Economic interests are a different story. Japanese companies doing business in China will be hit. There will be what amounts to an informa...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Did I Nail It? Yes, I think I did

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According to this Sankei report —yes, it’s Sankei, but you Western liberals should take its word for it; it’s as reliable as Asahi when ...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Where Does Governor Nakaima stand on Henoko?

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Okinawa governor Hirokazu Nakaima has been catching some flak for allegedly turning his back on his reelection campaign promise to seek rel...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

My “Drawing the Line” Prediction Falls Short…Both Ways

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Liberals as defined in American English may not like Sankei and Yomiuri — okay, they definitely don’t like Sankei and Yomiuri — but they ...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

20131226 Does Abe Mean It? Does It Really Matter?

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The Chinese and Koreans and the Japanese left are wasting no time in unleashing invectives on Prime Minister Abe and his visit to Yasukuni ...
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Off-the-Cuff: Abe/Yasukuni Addendum

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And we can forget about the Japan-China-ROK FTA happening during Abe’s tenure.

Off-the-Cuff: Prime Minister Abe’s Visit to Yasukuni

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I still didn’t think that he would do it, but he did. I would have advised him not to, but that’s why I’m not his advisor (…well, one of th...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Off-the-Cuff: A Bit of Contextualization for Abe’s National Security Agenda Initiatives

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Not surprisingly, many people following the Western media wonder if the recent flurry of the Abe administration’s activity around its natio...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Going out on a Limb on North Korea

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20131217Going Out on a Limb on North Korea 1.       Do not expect more purges going forward. Kim Jong Un killed the snake and its capos...
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TPP: The Trade Adjustment Assistance Angle, from Paul Sracic

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You can find many analysts who will explain the difficulties of a severely weakened Obama administration getting fast-track, Trade Promotio...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Off the Cuff: Around the Sudden Drop in Support for the Abe Administration

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My snap response, dated December 10. Shigeru Ishiba calling protesters of the Secrecy Act bill terrorists then dancing around that statemen...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Off-the-Cuff Assessments

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…in response to an inquiry from a fixed-income investment advisor. A week has gone by and my comments were given free of charge so here the...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

ClicheWatch: Go as Metaphor

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“China is playing the classic game of weiqi, wherein it slowly expands influence through steps that are not a threshold to violence and do...

Have I Become China Radio International’s Alan Colmes to Its Collective Sean Hannity in Discussing the Chinese Aid Difense Identification Zone?

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Yesterday, I appeared on China Radio International’s 10-11AM (Beijing Time) panel discussion by landline telephone, this time supposedly to...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Vice President Biden’s Contentious Courtesy Visit to China

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I had my latest five minutes of fame on the Channel News Asia network at 8:30PM Tokyo Time this evening (an hour earlier than I had expect...