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.
Diplomacy
Are Firms Ready for Economic Security? Insights from Japan and the Netherlands

Introducing the Economic Security Survey / Survey Findings and Comparison with Japan / Challenges and its Geopolitical Risks / Dif

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Diplomacy
Is China Guardian of the ‘Postwar International Order’?

Tensions in Japan-China relations have escalated following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Nov. 7 remarks on the right to collecti

Security
Defense Capabilities and Defense Industrial Cooperation in and across the Indo-Pacific

Japan’s Defense Industrial Policy / South Korea’s Defense Industrial Policy / Australia’s Defense Industrial Policy  / Europe’s Re

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Economic Security
Japan-India Defense in a Fragmenting Indo-Pacific

At their late-August summit, former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...(continues below)

Visiting Research Fellow

Tomofumi Uchino

Diplomacy
The “Economic Security is National Security” Strategy

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 25)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Economic Security
India – Japan: The Glimpse of a Shared Vision

G20 summit in Johannesburg (21–23 Nov) produced a dense set of bilateral outcomes and group initiatives that matter commercially a

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Diplomacy
Beijing’s ‘Globalist’ Agenda Under Trump 2.0

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s worth reflecting on the historical significance of a year that marked the 80th anniversary of the e

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Diplomacy
Trump’s Tariffs Might Be Here to Stay – No Matter Who’s in Power

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 24)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Diplomacy
The long road to a South Korea-U.S. trade deal

South Korea’s tariff negotiations with the U.S. emerged as an early test for President Lee Jae Myung’s “pragmatic diplomacy center

Security
Event Report: The Trump Tariffs and Their Impact on the Japanese Economy

On September 13, the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) held talks between Kumiko Pivette, Geopolitical Risk Advisory Lead at PwC Jap

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