
Research ActivitiesIOG 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

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

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

Senior Research Fellow
Hirohito Ogi
Ranking
Is the Iran Operation Really About China?2026.03.12
Orbán in the Public Eye: Anti-Ukraine Argument for Delegitimising Brussels2026.02.04
India's Rising Gravitational Pull2026.03.06
War in the Persian Gulf means volatility in the global energy market2026.03.26
The Supreme Court Strikes Down the IEEPA Tariffs: What Happened and What Comes Next?2026.02.27
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