The Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) / Research / Japan

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Research on Japan

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Can Takaichi Build on a Successful Summit?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

The Geoeconomics of Generative AI Development Race: How Emerging Technologies Can Become National Power

Generative AI has been progressing at an incr…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

From Decline to Surge: The Defense Industry in the Era of Excess Demand (Executive Summary)

As Japan’s security environment deteriorates,…

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

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

Event Report: Nuclear Weapons, Eighty Years After the War and the Atomic Bombings

On August 23, the Institute of Geoeconomics h…

Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part III: Implications for Defense Equipment Transfer Policy)

The greatest implication for Japan’s defense …

Research Associate

Rintaro Inoue

Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part I: Why Japan Won the Bid)

Will the only way to distinguish between Aust…

Research Associate

Rintaro Inoue

Beyond a Zero-Sum Approach to U.S.-Japan Defense Burden Sharing

The Trump administration’s policy of pressing…

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Japan’s Space Domain Defense Guidelines: Background, Key Features, and Policy Implications

On July 28, 2025, Japan's Ministry of Defense…

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

US Trade Agreements: Japan, the EU, and Global Trends

US-Japan Trade Agreement: Initial Impressions…

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

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