YEAR 2014

January
1. People should be discouraged from using loanwords. - Ichizuka
2. Self-driving cars become the future of transportation. - Tokiwa
3. Paying homage to the war dead is the duty of the leaders. - Taira

February
1. Religion brought more conflict than peace. - Shimabukuro
2. Is voting duty or choice? - Hayashi
3. NHK will be buffeted by political winds. - Miyake
4. Will stem cell therapy replace organ transplantation? - Matsumoto

March
1. Japan should be a nation of welfare society. - Shimabukuro
2. Westminster democracy or consensus democracy? - Inoue
3. Can NHK keep its neutrality and independence? - Miyake
4. All nuclear reactors should be dismantled immediately. - Matsumoto
5. Our government and we are ready for massive earthquakes to come?- Hayashi

April
1. Pet animals on dining tables should be categorized as livestock. - Ichizuka
2. Japanese people easily being brainwashed. - Shimabukuro
3. We should promote the Japanese language. - Ando
4. A new cold war is in the making. - Miyake

May
1. Will foreign visitors reach 20 million by 2020. - Kimura
2. The right to know or national security? - Taira
3. Which is more likely, success or failure? - Taira
4. Do we need a world policeman? - Inoue
5. Japanese wine will reach the world level by 2020. - Miyahara

June
1. Abenomic' labor-market reform makes Japan a sweatshop. - Matsumoro
2. We do not need Tenno any more. - Shimabukuro
3. Omotenashi tends to be Osekkai. - Ichizuka
4.  Scrapping the spousal tax breaks would encrouge wives to work full time. - Miyake

July
1. Politics is inseparable from religion. - Matsumoto
2. Does net society enhance cerendipity in Japan? - Suzuki
3. Obama is the worst President since WWII. - Okuda
4. Will the majority of people benefit from further technological advances? - Nakaya

August
1. Do you expect the world to be one country? - Matsumoto
2. Kunitachi Debate is on the verge of collapse. - Shimabukuro
3. Do you accept "Carbon Emissions Trading"? - Okuda
4. Does Moocs have impacts on traditional universities? - Kimura
5. The password could be dead in five years. - Matsumoto

September
1. Will American style of efficiency-oriented culture root in Japan? - Inoue
2. Should Japan have casinos? - Nakamura
3. Do more people need entrepreneurial spirit in the 21 century? - Nakaya
4. Nuclear weapons could be abolished within a century. - Okuda

October
1. The world led by globalization will become flatter. - Mizukoshi
2. The policy of the Asahi was the cause of error reports. - Ichizuka
3. Abe might be the world's best leader right now. - Taira
4. ISIS will be destroyed within several years. - Miyake

November
1. Patents should belong to employees unconditionally. - Matsumoto
2. Rewriting history should be justified. - Taira
3. There is no such a thing as contingency. - Miyahara
4. Will a megathrust earthquake attack Japan by 2015? - Matsumoto

December
1. Can Japan moderate political tensions with neighboring countries? - Inoue
2. Goodwill-only diplomacy hurts national interest. - Taira
3. Regular medical checkup is waste of money. - Shimabukuro
4. Could ELF approach break Japan's English curse? - Miyake