ResearchResearch Activities

IOG conducts research across five key themes: China, Europe and the United States, economic security, international security order, and emerging technologies. These activities are summarized through essays written by IOG researchers, offering in-depth analysis and insights on these critical areas.
Economic Security
The Lessons of the Nippon Steel Saga

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 14)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Unchecked and unbalanced: The future of U.S. economic policymaking

U.S. President Donald Trump is fanning the flames of yet another trade war by calling Japan “spoiled” and threatening to hike tari

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

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

Economic Security
China’s shipyard dominance leads to geoeconomic risks

China’s unparalleled shipbuilding capacity has the U.S., Japan and its allies — both military and economic — rightly concerned abo

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Politics and Economics
Democracy shouldn’t be used as an ideological weapon

Author: Maiko Ichihara, Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University Populism is threatening democracy around the

Economic Security
From dollar hegemony to currency multipolarity?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 13)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Diplomacy
Canada’s changing landscape: the impact of Trump tariffs and G7 Challenges

Canada and Japan's Approach to Trump Administration / Legal and Negotiation Issues of Tariff / Indo-Pacific Strategy and Canada's

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Diplomacy
Australia Navigates a New Order

Geoeconomic Agenda is a new Pacific-centric, globally-minded podcast that investigates the connections between economics, geopolit

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
The Big Continuity in Trump’s International Economic Policy

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 12)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Emerging Technology
Harnessing China’s tech giants: The case of Jack Ma

Author: Takahiro Tsuchiya, Professor, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies On Feb. 17, Chinese leader Xi Jinping convened a long

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