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How should Japan respond to China’s nuclear threat?

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

Japan
Views from Tokyo: Geoeconomic Implications of Iran War

Insights into President Trump’s Recent Remarks / Israel’s Ambition and the Resilience of the Iranian Regime / What the Geographica

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Japan
Takaichi is right to call for a ‘new technology-driven nation’

Late last year, the Trump administration released the National Security Strategy 2025 (NSS 2025), a document that carries a distin

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

Japan
The Geopolitics of Ports and Pipelines: The Case of The Strait of Hormuz -The Struggle Over Chokepoints-

By Yuki Goto, Visiting Research Fellow Approximately one month has passed since the United States and Israel launched military op

Japan
Redesigning U.S.-Japan security in a ‘two-peer’ nuclear era

Late last year, the Trump administration released the National Security Strategy 2025 (NSS 2025), a document that carries a distin

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kuniharu Kakihara

Japan
Don’t Count on U.S. Domestic Politics to Constrain Trump on Iran

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. 06)

Japan
War in the Persian Gulf means volatility in the global energy market

Last month’s U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, and the subsequent spike in energy prices, serve as a stark reminder that a stable suppl

Program Coordination Manager

Akihiko Sasaki

Japan
Japan’s Post-Election Economic Security Agenda

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

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Japan
China’s long-range DF-27 missiles are a game changer

Long before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew Beijing’s ire by stating the obvious — that a Chinese military assault on Taiwan co

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Japan
Lessons for Japan from Russia’s war in Ukraine

[Author: Yuichi Yoshida, LEAP Fellow]] With a mandate after its Feb. 8 election victory, the government of Prime Minister Sanae T

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