SUZUKI Hitoshi (PhD) was Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies and Regional Development, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in December 2007 and has focused on Japan’s relations with the EC/EU, as well as Japan’s auto and aero-space industry in Europe. He was visiting fellow at the Monash European and EU Centre, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was Deputy Director of the Economic Partnership Agreement Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan. As of December 2021, he serves as a Visiting Fellow & Staff Director, CPTPP Project, Asia Pacific Initiative. His publications include Thatcher and Nissan Revisited in the Wake of Brexit (Palgrave Macmillan), “The New Politics of Trade: EU-Japan” Journal of European Integration 39(7), “Post-Brexit Britain, the EU and Japan” Europe and the World 4(1), and Suzuki et.al. “Japan and the European Union,” Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics
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Japan Inc. cautiously optimistic despite rising uncertainty
An overwhelming number of Japanese companies …
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Survey on Overseas Business Development and Survey of 100 companies on Economic Security
Review of the Survey on Overseas Business Dev…
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Japan
Japanese Companies in the Age of Geoeconomics Based on Analysis of Two Surveys
Changes in how China is positioned / How to s…
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Japanese firms seek political stability and stronger alliance: survey – IOG Survey Results of 100 Japanese Companies on Economic Security –
Booklet “Survey Results of 100 Japanese Compa…
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How electric vehicles became subject to EU economic security
Among Japan, the United States and Europe, th…
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Diplomacy
Ahead of G7 Hiroshima summit, Japan should examine past contributions
For Japan, which is not a permanent member of…
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Economic Security
New challenges have forced Japanese companies to address economic security
Japanese companies have been facing multiple …
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Economic Security
Japanese carmakers face continuing risks in the Russian market
Ever since the era of the Cold War, when auto…
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