IOG Commentary

Research Activities
IOG Commentary

IOG researchers provide timely analysis, commentary, and recommendations on current international affairs and Japanese policies.
Diplomacy
The Geopolitics of Ports and Pipelines: The Case of The Strait of Hormuz -The Struggle Over Chokepoints-

By Yuki Goto, Visiting Research Fellow Appro…

Diplomacy
U.S. LNG and Japan’s Sea Lanes: Towards Diversification and Stabilization of the Maritime Transportation Routes

By Yuki Goto, Visiting Research Fellow The s…

Security
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part III: Implications for Defense Equipment Transfer Policy)

The greatest implication for Japan’s defense …

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Asia Pacific
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part II: Three Risks in Defense Equipment Transfers)

Exporting large, complex defense equipment is…

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Security
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part I: Why Japan Won the Bid)

Will the only way to distinguish between Aust…

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

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

Economic Security
The Courts Rule Trump’s April 2 Tariffs Illegal – What Happens Next?

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Nippon Steel: The Decision Is Biden’s, but the Problem is Systemic

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

画像
Diplomacy
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) amid US-China strategic competition: The Global South’s agency in era of geoeconomics

[IOG Commentary No. 2] In September 2024, Chi…

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

画像
Security
Japan-U.S.-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation in Response to the Russia-North Korea Partnership

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

CLOSE