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.
Security
How should Japan respond to China’s nuclear threat?

Concerns over a potential Taiwan contingency …

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Diplomacy
Views from Tokyo: Geoeconomic Implications of Iran War

Insights into President Trump’s Recent Remark…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Security
Takaichi is right to call for a ‘new technology-driven nation’

Late last year, the Trump administration rele…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

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…

Economic Security
India’s Semiconductor Moment

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Security
Redesigning U.S.-Japan security in a ‘two-peer’ nuclear era

Late last year, the Trump administration rele…

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kuniharu Kakihara

Diplomacy
Don’t Count on U.S. Domestic Politics to Constrain Trump on Iran

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. …

Security
War in the Persian Gulf means volatility in the global energy market

Last month’s U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, and…

Program Coordination Manager

Akihiko Sasaki

Diplomacy
Japan’s Post-Election Economic Security Agenda

  Geoeconomic Agenda is a new Pacific…

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Is the Iran Operation Really About China?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

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