15th Nov 2009 : Asahi Newspaper
[ Reuters \ Singapore \ 14th Nov ]
Leaders of APEC (the Asia-Pacific Economic Committee), at a meeting held in Singapore, have made it clear that the target for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to be made public in a declaration on 15th Nov will be expressed by the English word [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Foreign Affairs’
November 16, 2009
APEC Leaders propose ambiguous Target for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
August 26, 2009
The Situation in Afghanistan (Summer 2009)
[ full, unlicensed translation of article in September issue of Sekai by Tooru Shirakawa, a 24-year old journalist who has travelled to Afghanistan 5 times in the last 3 years to conduct research and make contact with local people. ]
In April 2009, my feet touched down again on Afghan soil. This was my fifth extended [...]
August 24, 2009
Toyota in China re-call
Toyota Automobiles revealed on 24th August that the company has recalled around 680,000 passenger vehicles from customers in China. The re-called models include the mid-size ‘Camry’ sedan, the ‘Corolla’ sedan and the ‘Vios’ and ‘Yaris’ compact cars. Regular use of window ‘open/close’ switches in these vehicles can cause them to overheat and stop working.
According to [...]
July 16, 2009
An Alternative to current National Security Policy
[ Sekai, July 2009 ] – precis translation
A Call for Escape from American Domination / Ideological Stasis
[ 1 ] – The Guam Re-location Agreement and US-Japan Security Framework
June 30, 2009
Patriot Missile Farce
East Asian Security Research Council reports in June issue of Sekai.
Key premiss : recent deployment of PAC3 systems in response to North Korean missile threat (intelligence info about which was supplied to Japanese gov’t in first instance by US Satellite Early Warning Centre) was an act of public misdirection with regard to the true nature [...]
May 25, 2008
Iraq Special Measures Law extension ‘difficult’
Yamasaki Taku, chairman of the LDP’s Diplomatic Research Committee, remarked in a debate in Tokyo on 25th May [2008] that “people are saying that extending the Iraq Special Measures Law will be difficult, and I agree with them completely”. The Iraq Special Measures Law, originally passed under PM Koizumi, is the legal basis for Japan [...]
April 5, 2008
METI to warn British investment fund
METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) and the Finance Ministry of Japan will make an official decision by 11th April to ‘advise’ a British investment fund to modify or desist from its investment plans as announced in its application to increase its stock holdings in Japanese electricity-producing giant J-Power as “There is a risk [...]
March 27, 2008
SDF Air Force Lieutenant to be Charged for Information Leak
The Asahi Shinbun reports today that a grade 1 Lieutenant at the Defence Ministry’s Information HQ is to be charged on suspicion of breaking the SDF Law (Disclosure of Defence Secrets) over an article published in the Yomiuri Newspaper in 2005 about a Chinese submarine drifting powerless in the South China sea after an accident.
March 27, 2008
ANA to seek Compensation from Boeing
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is to seek compensation from American aircraft manufacture Boeing over the late delivery of new 787 passenger aircraft, which has forced the company to change its plans and projections, reports the Asahi Shinbun today. The exact amount of compensation to be sought will be given careful consideration when the planes have [...]
March 24, 2008
Chinese and Japanese Finance Ministers Meet
On 23rd March, Japanese Finance Minister Nukaga exchanged opinions with his Chinese counterpart Hsiei at a meeting in Tokyo organized by the Sino-Japanese Finance Authority’s Executive board.
February 27, 2008
Why is the Yen weak?
Hideo Tamura, Special Economic Affairs journalist with Sankei Newspapers, writes (Sekai, March edition) about the state of the yen.
February 26, 2008
Japan & Middle East Sovereign Wealth Funds
Yoshiki Hatanaka, a senior consultant with Japan’s International Development Centre specializing in Middle Eastern economics, international oil, etc., writes in Sekai about Sovereign Wealth Funds. After providing an explanation of what SWFs are, an overview of the effect of the sub-prime crisis on them, and a brief analysis of Russian and Chinese SWFs, the [...]
February 22, 2008
Whaling
Atsushi Ishii (石井敦), Touhoku University East Asia Research Institute Professor, writes in the March edition of Sekai (世界) on the question of why the controversy over Scientific Whaling keeps raising its head – and offers an independent view of Japan’s whaling diplomacy.
August 6, 2007
Atomic Bomb Day
Today (6th August), Japan remembers the approximately 140,000 who died when the plutonium-loaded FatBoy atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. In 3 days time, on 9th August, it will be Nagsaki’s turn – 70,000 perished when the uranium-loaded LittleBoy was dropped over a christian district in the city.
