METRO

• “Ukraine root causes of a prolonged conflict” METRO, January 23, #21
• “China’s role in world affairs: how it matters” METRO, February 6, #22
• “A classic combination of chaos and international clash” METRO, February 20, #23
• “European Security- Shifting ground” METRO, March 6, #24
• “How does US political strife determine US foreign policy” METRO, March 20, #25
• “Golan Heights” METRO, April 3, #26
• “Russia in Africa” METRO, April 17, #27
• “A significant deep discord with an unpredictable outcome” agenda : What Brexit means for the world, May 1, 2019, #28
• “The US and China should create a global vision of coexistence” agenda : New battleground? China-Europe vs. America-Europe, May 15, 2019, #29
• “Why is there a strategic split between America and European allies in the matter of the 2015 ‘Iranian Nuclear deal’?” METRO, May 29, #30
• “China vs India“ METRO, Middle of June, #31
• “Hong Kong” METRO, End of June, #32
• “Yemen the military-strategic dimension”, Togo: ‘Mapping Yemen’s current wars to History’ METRO, July 10, #33
• “The future of NATO” METRO, July 24, #34
• “Brexit-a different approach?”, Togo: ‘Brexit: toward an exit without an agreement?’ METRO, September 4, #35
• “74th session of the UN General Assembly- in a changing world order?”, Togo: ‘Searching for a new global balance of power’ METRO, September 18, #36
• “The US-Iran conflict: the US’s pursuit of maximum sanctions vs the vulnerability of the US allies” METRO, October 2, #37
• “Syria: A continuing cauldron” METRO, October 16, #38
• “The Human Rights Council and politics at the UN” METRO, October 30, #39
• “Still on the move: the world’s migration and refugee challenge 2019” METRO, November 13, #40
• “Impeachment and US Foreign Policy”; Togo: ‘Impeachment could have consequence for world peace’ METRO, November 27, #41
• “Latin American Political Meltdown” METRO, December 11, #42

Other issues

• “2019 to be defining year for fate of Russian-held islands” Japan Times, January 3, 2019, commentary in this article
• “Unconditional Surrender, the Emperor and the Tokyo Trial: Implications for the Present-Day Japan-US Alliance” 京都産業大学世界問題研究所紀要、第34巻、2019年3月、59～85ページ
• “The United States and Post-war Japan; Towards Japan’s Greater Autonomy” Institute of America and Canada, Journal RAN, October 29, 2019
• “From the Tokyo Declaration to the Irkutsk Statement, 1991 to 2001” A History of Russo-Japanese Relations, Brill, 2019, pp.483~498