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.
Emerging Technology
Japan’s manufacturing sector and the race for physical AI

Japan wants to turn its factory floors into the proving ground for the next frontier of artificial intelligence. The question is w

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Economic Security
Strategy Amidst Weaponized Economics

How Korea Learned to Navigate Weaponized Economics / Europe's Response: From Dependence to Resilience / Can Middle Powers Shape th

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Security
Japan lays the groundwork for submarine cable resilience

By Anna Oriishi, Institute for Information and Communications Policy Beneath the oceans, out of sight and mostly out of mind, lie

Economic Security
Sovereign AI After Fugu: From Vertical Dominance to Horizontal Resilience

On 22 June, Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched “Fugu”, a multi-agent orchestration system accessed through a single model API (applica

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Politics and Economics
Critical Minerals: Resiliency or Risks?

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

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
European Industry and the “Second China Shock”

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. 11)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Economic Security
Keynote & Fireside Chat: Dr. Joshua Walker & Dr. Ken Jimbo

How Optimistic Should We Be About the US? / Why America’s Strategic Shift Will Outlast Trump / Is Japan Making the Most of Its Str

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Security
Seoul hits the China reset button. Or does it?

By Jiseon Shin, Research Fellow at the Sungkyun Institute of China Studies (SICS), Sungkyunkwan University South Korea’s recent d

Diplomacy
From “Separating Politics and Economics” to “Balancing Politics and Economics”: Japan-China Relations in the Age of Economic Security

Following President Trump’s visit to China, both Washington and Beijing have begun speaking—in their own respective terms—of const

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Security
India’s China dilemma: engagement vs. dependence

In October 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mamallapuram, a coastal town in southern Ind

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

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