Research Activities

Research on Japan

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

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

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

What Does "Defending Taiwan" Explain? / The 'Quarantine' Option for China / Political and Economic Challenges in a Taiwan Crisis /

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

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

The 15th India-Japan Annual Summit in August 2025 produced an unusually ambitious set of bilateral frameworks: the Economic Securi

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

This article originally appeared in the Japanese journal "Foresight".

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

In November, less than a month after taking office, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi established the Japan Growth Strategy Headquarte

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

A key concept for understanding the expansion of China’s geoeconomic power is what could be called the “indispensability of goods.

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. 07)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Concerns over a potential Taiwan contingency have steadily intensified since 2021, the year former U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Comma

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi