Japan Institute for National Fundamentals
| Abbreviation | JINF |
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| Formation | 2007 |
| Type | think tank (public policy and foreign policy) |
| Headquarters | Claire Hirakawa-cho #801, 2-16-5 Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0093, Japan |
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President | Yoshiko Sakurai |
| Website | en |
The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (国家基本問題研究所, Kokka Kihon Mondai Kenkyūjo) or Kokkiken (国基研) is a public and foreign policy think tank in Tokyo, Japan, privately funded and founded in December 2007 by Yoshiko Sakurai.
Sakurai started her career as a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter on Nippon Television's late night news programme Kyō no Dekigoto from 1980 to 1996. She worked on the HIV-tainted blood scandal in Japan during the 1990s.
Affiliated with the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Sakurai denies sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military during World War II (i.e. "comfort women"). She promoted Taniyama Yūjirō's 2015 Scottsboro Girls film in Japan and the United States, a revisionist film aimed at denying the sexual enslavement of comfort women.
In 2007, she supported a film about the Nanjing Massacre, The Truth About Nanjing. Satoru Mizushima, the director and producer of the film, has said the massacre is nothing more than propaganda.
She is the originator of the term "Tokutei Asia".