Emerging Technology

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Research on Emerging Technology

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Security
The Geoeconomics of Gen AI: Middle Power Strategies on Digital Sovereignty

How Is Generative AI Changing Global Competition and Cooperation? / Hiroshima AI Process / South Korean Approach to AI / EU’s Poli

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

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

Generative AI has been progressing at an incredible pace and has become one of the most closely watched emerging technologies. Its

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Diplomacy
Geoeconomic Summit Introduction

Geoeconomic Summit Introduction / EU-CPTPP Relationship and International Trade Dynamics  / Dealing With the “America First” Unite

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Emerging Technology
A Looming Crisis in U.S. Science and Technology: The Case of NASA’s Science Budget

Barely six months into the second Trump administration, more than 4,000 employees have left the National Aeronautics and Space Adm

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Economic Security
Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?

Captured in images that immediately went viral, U.S. President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January drew the attendance o

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 hosted a dialogue featuring Dr. Hirofumi Tosaki, Associate Professor at the Center for

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

On July 28, 2025, Japan's Ministry of Defense announced the "Space Domain Defense Guidelines" (hereinafter referred to as "the Gui

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Emerging Technology
Will Trump’s tech policies propel U.S. success against China?

Technology is the key to the confrontation between the United States and China, and the ability to innovate lies at the heart of t

Visiting Research Fellow

Mariko Togashi

Economic Security
Japan needs to take the quantum-technology leap

[Author: Wakana Asano, API Takano Fellow] From the World War II race for an atomic bomb, to the Cold War race for nuclear and s

Emerging Technology
A ‘Sputnik’ moment in the global AI race

When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled the open-source large language model DeepSeek-R1 in January, many referred to it as the

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

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