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
How Xi Jinping is fortifying China’s economic security

More players in the global economy are now prioritizing national security as well as economic efficiency, with economic security i

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Economic Security
New challenges have forced Japanese companies to address economic security

Japanese companies have been facing multiple geoeconomic risks in the past year — from the war in Ukraine to rising uncertainties

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Security
Japan’s New National Security Strategy

Regional context / Domestic political dynamics / What the NSS means for Japan’s future

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Economic Security
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 2 No. 2)

All aboard / Easing up? / Details, details / Trading places / Americas Only / TRQ / Analysis: The Limits of Securitization

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Why pharmaceuticals are a key issue in the ongoing U.S.-China conflict

Kevin McCarthy and Mike Gallagher, anti-China hard-line Republicans in the U.S. Congress, wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News l

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Economic Security
Looking back 20 years to learn lessons from the U.S.-Japan chip war

A few weeks ago I went to the library to find a copy of Chris Miller’s acclaimed “Chip War,” the recently-released book explaining

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 2 No. 1)

Summiteering / Collaboration on Advanced Semiconductors / Tackling Forced Labor in Supply Chains / Onto Investment Screening / Can

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
How Japan and its businesses should respond to U.S. economic security policies

The United States last year implemented measures to tighten semiconductor export controls and supply chain resilience, and is tryi

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Satoshi Yamada

Economic Security
Why the semiconductor competition between the U.S. and China is significant

The day the U.S. Department of Commerce announced measures to strengthen export controls on semiconductors shipped to China — Oct.

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Security
Japan’s future security lies in a ‘denial and competition’ strategy

In December, the Cabinet approved three key strategy documents that serve as the basis for Japan’s national security and defense p

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

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