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 deal with Ukraine, Gaza and the Indo-Pacific region?

Today’s international security environment indicates that what political scientist Walter Russel Mead called “the return of geopol

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Economic Security
Remaining Challenges for Operationalizing Japan’s Information Security Legislation

Japanese government submitted a bill on establishing the new security clearance legislation for protecting sensitive information r

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Economic Security
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 3 No. 4)

Building Up to the WTO Ministerial / Court Blocks Florida Law Preventing Chinese Citizens from Land Purchases / China Committee Ch

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
The U.S.-Japan gap: a challenge in economicsecurity cooperation

In recent years, Japan has been the world’s forerunner in the field of economic security, setting up an economic division within t

Visiting Research Fellow

Mariko Togashi

Security
The Tyranny of Geography: Okinawa in the era of great power competition

Since Okinawa’s handover back to Japan in 1972, the prefecture has played an indispensable role in Japan’s national security. The

Research Associate

Marina Fujita Dickson

Economic Security
Why Japanese companies need to prepare for Trump 2.0

On Jan. 12, as the new year got underway, TV Tokyo conducted an interview with leaders of major Japanese companies regarding 2024'

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Satoshi Yamada

Economic Security
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 3 No. 3)

EU Builds Out its Economic Security Strategy / United States Sanctions Israeli Settlers / Skepticism about Market Status for Vietn

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Security
The Two Wars and the Elections in 2024

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Security
How East Asia should prepare for a possible Trump comeback

U.S. allies in East Asia are becoming increasingly worried about how the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November wil

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Economic Security
ASEAN as a Geoeconomic Actor

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

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

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