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Japan
Can Japan build a defense-startup ecosystem?

Until recently, it was difficult to imagine Japanese startups entering the defense sector. But a changing security environment and

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Japan
Economic security in health and medicine through strategic alignment

Japan wants pharmaceuticals and advanced medicine to drive its next phase of economic growth. But achieving that goal will require

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Japan
National Security and the Stakes of ‘Technology Sovereignty’

The technologies that increasingly determine national security are being developed not only by governments but by private companie

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

Japan
The Takaichi Administration’s High-Stakes Growth Gamble

One of the great challenges of long-term economic planning in a democracy is the election cycle. The political competition that gi

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Japan
Japan’s Science-Security Convergence Needs Guardrails

By Hiroyuki Matsumura, professor in the Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University in Tokyo Japan’s latest science and technology

Japan
Turning Dual-Use Technology Into Defense Capability

Japan is betting heavily on dual-use technology, but finding promising technologies is the easy part. The harder challenge is turn

Senior Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Japan
Why Takaichi Can’t Be the Next Shinzo Abe

As the clearest political heir to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces a defining question: Can s

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Japan
Weaponized Interdependence in the Trump Era

Paul Nadeau Visiting Research Fellow at IOG Abraham Newman Professor of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georget

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Japan
Sustained Denial and Strategic Depth: Policy Recommendations for Japan’s Next Strategic Documents

As China continues to expand its military and uncertainty grows over U.S. alliance commitments, what kind of defense strategy shou

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kuniharu Kakihara

Japan
As shared values shift, what’s next for U.S.-Japan relations?

The U.S.-Japan alliance has never been only a military arrangement. During the Cold War, Japan and the United States saw themselve

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Kato

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