Research Activities
Geoeconomic Briefing

Geoeconomic Briefing is a series featuring researchers at the IOG focused on Japan’s challenges in that field. It will also provide analyses of the state of the world and trade risks as well as technological and industrial structures. (Editor-in-chief: Dr. SUZUKI Kazuto, Director, Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG); Professor, The University of Tokyo)

Security

The Case for Underground Defense: Japan’s Military Lessons from the Iran War

As the Japanese government prepares to revise its three national security documents later this year, the debate over its defense s

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Diplomacy

Japan positioned to link U.S. and Europe in a fragmented world

In a promotional video for his book “Defending Taiwan,” Eyck Freymann argues that China is using Japan as a testing ground for new

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Emerging Technology

Japan’s manufacturing sector and the race for physical AI

Japan wants to turn its factory floors into the proving ground for the next frontier of artificial intelligence. The question is w

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Security

Japan lays the groundwork for submarine cable resilience

By Anna Oriishi, Institute for Information and Communications Policy Beneath the oceans, out of sight and mostly out of mind, lie

Security

Seoul hits the China reset button. Or does it?

By Jiseon Shin, Research Fellow at the Sungkyun Institute of China Studies (SICS), Sungkyunkwan University South Korea’s recent d

Diplomacy

From “Separating Politics and Economics” to “Balancing Politics and Economics”: Japan-China Relations in the Age of Economic Security

Following President Trump’s visit to China, both Washington and Beijing have begun speaking—in their own respective terms—of const

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Security

India’s China dilemma: engagement vs. dependence

In October 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mamallapuram, a coastal town in southern Ind

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security

Semiconductor chokepoints define U.S.-China rivalry

U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Beijing offers a timely moment to assess the upheaval in U.S. trade relations since t

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Eiki Tagami

Diplomacy

Canada’s China recalibration: Rapprochement or risk-hedging?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney drew global attention at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he argu

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Security

Shifting costs to allies won’t ‘restore’ U.S. maritime dominance

The longstanding maxim that “whoever controls the sea controls the world” reflects the central role of maritime power in ensuring

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

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Editor-in-chief

Kazuto Suzuki

Director & Group Head, Economic Security,

Kazuto Suzuki is Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received his Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England. He has worked for the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, France as an assistant researcher, as an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and served as Professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. He also spent one year at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 2012 to 2013 as a visiting researcher. He served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for Iranian Sanction Committee under the United Nations Security Council from 2013 to July 2015. He has been the President of the Japan Association of International Security and Trade. [Concurrent Position] Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

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