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Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Jul 23, 2018

Osaka quake adds to misunderstandings of active faults

Seismologists should do away with the misleading term "active fault."

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Jul 20, 2018

Japan automakers' dominance is fading

Japanese automakers have fallen behind Germany in the development of autonomous driving technologies.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Jun 26, 2018

Japan's backward vaccination policy

Citizens are being needlessly left exposed to infectious diseases.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Jun 24, 2018

Problematic forestry management law

New policy stacks the deck in favor of big business.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE May 28, 2018

As smartphone sales sink, Asian suppliers feel the pinch

A decline in global smartphone sales is bad news for Japanese electronics makers.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE May 24, 2018

China moving slowly into Hokkaido

by Senkaku Magazine

Chinese money is pouring into Hokkaido at a much greater scale than imagined. In his recent visit to the island prefecture, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attended a forum of Japanese prefectural and Chinese provincial governors in Sapporo on May 11, but a Chinese diplomatic ...

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Apr 25, 2018

Is the Indo-Japan rail project a boondoggle?

It appears all but certain that India will ask Japan to shoulder rising costs of the shinkansen project in India.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Mar 26, 2018

Nuclear power plant construction in Britain: A bottomless swamp

Hitachi Ltd. and other Japanese firms are making risky bets on nuclear power plant construction in Britain.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Mar 20, 2018

Abolition of Main Crop Seeds Law puts nation at risk

Japan's food security may be put at risk with the abolition — effective April 1 — of the Main Crop Seeds Law.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Mar 6, 2018

Did ¥550 million from Japan fill Kim's coffers?

It's likely that illicit money transfers were made from Japan to North Korea. But the FSA and the Finance Ministry are keeping mum on the incident.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Feb 21, 2018

The false promise of missile defense

Excessive spending on missile defense could be detrimental to other defense programs, leading to a weakening of the nation's overall defense capabilities.

Commentary / Japan | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Feb 19, 2018

Why Japan's national land preservation policy is useless

The government has a low degree of consciousness with regard to the preservation of national land.