Research Activities

Research on Americas

Updated: August 7, 2025 While U.S. President Donald Trump has called himself the “Tariff Man” and has made tariffs a central tool

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

US-Japan Trade Agreement: Initial Impressions and Details / Patterns in Trump's Trade Policies and US-EU Agreement / After Japan a

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 15)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Geoeconomic Agenda is a new Pacific-centric, globally-minded podcast that investigates the connections between economics, geopolit

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

In 2010, a charming dog from Japan circulated on social media, its quizzical expression sparking a global meme. Her image became k

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

[Author: Sadamasa Oue , consulting senior fellow of the Asia Pacific Initiative / former lieutenant general in Japan’s Air Self-De

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 14)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

U.S. President Donald Trump is fanning the flames of yet another trade war by calling Japan “spoiled” and threatening to hike tari

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled the open-source large language model DeepSeek-R1 in January, many referred to it as the

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Author: Maiko Ichihara, Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University Populism is threatening democracy around the