Research Activities
IOG Commentary

IOG researchers provide timely analysis, commentary, and recommendations on current international affairs and Japanese policies.

Asia Pacific

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

Exporting large, complex defense equipment is never easy for any country. For Japan, the first-ever transfer of the New FFM frigat

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Security

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

Will the only way to distinguish between Australian and Japanese frigates soon be the red kangaroo emblem painted behind the bridg

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 announced the "Space Domain Defense Guidelines" (hereinafter referred to as "the Gui

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, China gathered leaders from all 53 African countries, excluding Eswatini, with which it

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

Security

How Can We Make the Argument on Tax Increase for Strengthening Defense Capabilities Persuasive?

On December 16, 2022, when the Japanese government released the three strategic documents, the Defense Buildup Program, one of t

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Economic Security

Japan integrated economic security into its new National Security Strategy

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Security

The Strategic Shift from Territorial Defense to In-Depth Interdiction and the Unfinished Work of Transforming the Self-Defense Forces: Key Takeaways on Japanese Three Strategic Documents

On December 16, 2022, the Japanese government decided to significantly strengthen its defense capabilities by adopting the so-call

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

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