Essays on Japan, business, technology and whatever else interests me.
Japan legalized the constitutional amendment process in 2007 and has returned pro-revision majorities ever since. Calling revision an "ongoing debate" is not analysis but evasion.
The case for acquiring Greenland — strategic indispensability, wasted resources, inadequate local administration — is the same case Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden made for their own empires. What has changed is the speaker, not the logic.
Beijing's response to Sanae Takaichi's Taiwan remarks — a decapitation threat from its Osaka consul general and Mao-era propaganda posts — was turned into memes within hours, debunking the myth of CCP sophistication in cognitive warfare.
Japan is the only major democracy with neither a counter-espionage law nor a security clearance system. Three connected reforms — a vetting authority, a modern espionage statute, and real oversight — would fix its weakest link in information security.