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| Abbreviation | JINF |
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| Formation | 2007 |
| Type | think tank (public policy andforeign policy) |
| Headquarters | Claire Hirakawa-cho #801, 2-16-5Hirakawa-cho,Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, 102-0093,Japan |
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President | Yoshiko Sakurai |
| Website | en |
TheJapan Institute for National Fundamentals (国家基本問題研究所,Kokka Kihon Mondai Kenkyūjo) or Kokkiken (国基研) is apublic andforeign policythink tank inTokyo,Japan, privately funded and founded in December 2007 byYoshiko Sakurai.
Sakurai started her career as a journalist for theChristian Science Monitor in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter onNippon Television's late night news programmeKyō no Dekigoto from 1980 to 1996. She worked on theHIV-tainted blood scandal in Japan during the 1990s.
Affiliated with the openlyrevisionist lobbyNippon Kaigi,[1] Sakurai denies sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military during World War II (i.e. "comfort women").[2] She promotedTaniyama Yūjirō's [ja] 2015 Scottsboro Girls film in Japan and the United States, a revisionist film aimed at denying the sexual enslavement of comfort women.[3][4]
In 2007, she supported a film about theNanjing Massacre,The Truth About Nanjing.[5]Satoru Mizushima, the director and producer of the film, has said the massacre is nothing more than propaganda.[5]
She is the originator of the term "Tokutei Asia".It regularly gives policy proposals to the Japanese government[6] and holds monthly "study" meetings and international symposiums.[7]
JINF has close ties to the ultranationalist organizationNippon Kaigi and many of its members also come from various ultranationalist textbook reform organizations/movements likeJapanese Society for History Textbook Reform, Japan Education Rebirth Institute (Kyoiku Saisei), and Society to Improve Textbooks.
From Nippon Kaigi, some prominent members include chairman Tadae Takubo,[8] secretary general Yuzo Kabashima,[9] former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara,[10] and policy committee member Akira Momochi.[11]
JINF publishes weekly short commentaries written by various professionals on current issues. The institute also publishes a newsletter reporting activities every other month for its members.
Since 2014, the JINF has administered two annual prizes, a Kokkiken Japan Study Award and Japan Study Encouragement Award. Through these awards, the Foundation "encourages and honors outstanding works in the field of Japanese studies at home and abroad that contribute to the furthering of understanding of Japan in the areas of politics, national security, diplomacy, history, education and culture, among others."[14]
The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals is a fully private-funded think tank. There are three types of membership of the institute, Individual, Supporter and Corporate membership, all of which are completely open.
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