The executive director / visiting professor Akira IGATA commented on Japanese version of Magnitsky Act on Asahi Shimbun.
“Akira Igata, a visiting professor of economic security at Tama Graduate School of Business in Tokyo, called for a new initiative to work with China.
‘An increasing number of experts are now skeptical about the existing assumption that China’s democracy will expand as the country’s economy grows,’ he said. ‘We need a new effort to prod China into taking a different approach’ toward human rights issues.”
