ResearchResearch Activities
IOG conducts research across five key themes: China, Europe and the United States, economic security, international security order, and emerging technologies. These activities are summarized through essays written by IOG researchers, offering in-depth analysis and insights on these critical areas.

Emerging Technology
A Looming Crisis in U.S. Science and Technology: The Case of NASA’s Science Budget
Barely six months into the second Trump admin…

Research Fellow
Kota Umeda

Economic Security
Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?
Captured in images that immediately went vira…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies
Makoto Shiono

Economic Security
What Comes Next after the Supreme Court Rules on IEEPA?
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow
Paul Nadeau

Americas
Trump 2.0 and the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
The progress made at last month’s Oval Office…

Diplomacy
Event Report: Nuclear Weapons, Eighty Years After the War and the Atomic Bombings
On August 23, the Institute of Geoeconomics h…

China
The Fissures Beneath China’s Positive GDP Numbers
As the U.S.-China trade conflict grinds on, C…

Senior Fellow & Group Head, China
Naoko Eto

Economic Security
US-China Trade and the “Great Rebalancing”
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow
Andrew Capistrano

Politics and Economics
‘Trump Doctrine’ A Fundamental Challenge to Allied Unity
China’s “grand” military parade earlier this …

Security
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part III: Implications for Defense Equipment Transfer Policy)
The greatest implication for Japan’s defense …

Research Associate
Rintaro Inoue

Asia Pacific
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part II: Three Risks in Defense Equipment Transfers)
Exporting large, complex defense equipment is…

Research Associate
Rintaro Inoue
Ranking
- US-China Trade and the "Great Rebalancing"2025.09.19
- Event Report: Nuclear Weapons, Eighty Years After the War and the Atomic Bombings2025.09.25
- The Logic Behind Legally Risky Tariffs2025.09.03
- What Comes Next after the Supreme Court Rules on IEEPA?2025.10.02
- Japan needs to take the quantum-technology leap2025.07.09
Other Research
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