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Emerging Technology
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Economic Security
Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?
Captured in images that immediately went vira…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies
Makoto Shiono

Diplomacy
Event Report: Nuclear Weapons, Eighty Years After the War and the Atomic Bombings
On August 23, the Institute of Geoeconomics h…

Emerging Technology
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

Emerging Technology
Will Trump’s tech policies propel U.S. success against China?
Technology is the key to the confrontation be…

Visiting Research Fellow
Mariko Togashi

Economic Security
Japan needs to take the quantum-technology leap
[Author: Wakana Asano, API Takano Fellow] …

Emerging Technology
A ‘Sputnik’ moment in the global AI race
When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled the…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies
Makoto Shiono

Emerging Technology
Harnessing China’s tech giants: The case of Jack Ma
Author: Takahiro Tsuchiya, Professor, Kyoto U…

Emerging Technology
The Power of Private Individuals: The Informal Influence of Technology
In his farewell address, President Biden soun…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

Emerging Technology
Navigating Uncertainty in U.S. Space Policy: Decoding Elon Musk’s Influence
When President Trump declared in his second i…

Research Fellow
Kota Umeda

Emerging Technology
Japan is no island when it comes to semiconductors. Rightly so.

Visiting Research Fellow
Andrew Capistrano





