Tag: Japan

(Japan) How Japan Is Upgrading Its Military (CFR)

Sheila A. Smith Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga intends to continue Japan’s sweeping upgrades of its defense capabilities amid a major buildup of China’s military forces,...

(Japan) Transparency problems confront public scrutiny of Japan’s COVID-19 aid (East Asia Forum)

Yusaku Yoshikawa, JIN Corporation In response to COVID-19 Japan launched an Official Development Assistance (ODA) scheme for developing countries. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/24/transparency-problems-confront-public-scrutiny-of-japans-covid-19-aid/

(Japan/Defence Spending) Japanese defence spending at the fiscal crossroads (East Asia Forum)

Yuki Tatsumi, Stimson Center Japan’s 2021 defence budget is set to be its largest ever, continuing a near decade-long trend set in motion by former...

(USA/South Korea/Japan) What to expect from Japan and Korea in a Taiwan contingency (AEI)

Zack Cooper, Sheena Greitens What are the prospects for ally contributions if a major contingency takes place between the United States and China? Several recent commentaries...

(Japan/UK/Defence) Japan and UK move towards partnership to develop combat-aircraft systems (The Strategist)

Bradley Perrett A surprising defence-technology partnership is emerging between Japan and the UK. The cooperation is mostly preliminary but not at all basic: the two...

(Japan/National Security Strategy) SF Prototyping – a Proposal for Building a National Strategy (The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)

Jun Nagashima Executive Member,DSEI JAPAN (Defense and Security Equipment International) Lieutenant General (Retired) "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein...

(Japan/Europe/USA/Security) Report Publication: “Allies Growing Closer: Japan–Europe Security Ties in the Age of Strategic Competition” by Dr. Jeffrey Hornung

Jeffrey Hornung The report describes the different types of cooperation in the security domain between Japan and European countries, the two most reliable allies for the United States in light of the current resurgence of great...

(Japan/China/Security Policy) A Security Policy for Japan to Deal with China’s Active Strategy (JIIA)

Bonji Ohara China's national strategy is not necessarily focused on the Indo-Pacific region. However, it does have a significant impact on the security environment in...

(Japan/Economics) An Assessment of Abenomics and Challenges for the Suga Administration (JIIA)

Shin-ichi Fukuda Abenomics, the economic policy of the Abe administration, aimed to realize sustainable growth in Japan by pulling the economy out of prolonged deflation....

(India/Japan/France/China) The India-Japan-France trilateral cooperation to tackle the rising Chinese hegemony (ORF)

The increasing geostrategic significance of the Indo-Pacific region and the shift in economic power from the West to the East has resulted in increasing...

(Japan/China) A Security Policy for Japan to Deal with China’s Active Strategy (JIIA)

Bonji Ohara, (Senior Fellow, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation) https://www.jiia.or.jp/en/ajiss_commentary/a-security-policy-for-japan-to-deal-with-chinas-active-strategy.html

(Japan) Japan’s Cybersecurity Strategy: From the Olympics to the Indo-Pacific (IFRI)

Mihoko MATSUBARA, Dai MOCHINAGA https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/notes-de-lifri/asie-visions/japans-cybersecurity-strategy-olympics-indo-pacific

(USA/Japan/China) The United States and Japan should prepare for wat with China (War on the Rocks)

JEFFREY W. HORNUNG https://warontherocks.com/2021/02/the-united-states-and-japan-should-prepare-for-war/

(Japan/G7) Motives for Tokyo’s reluctance on an expanded G7 (Asia Times)

By JAGANNATH PANDA https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/motives-for-tokyos-reluctance-on-an-expanded-g7/

(Japan) Innovation quality and global collaborations: Insights from Japan (Dany Bahar and Selen Özdoğan, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/innovation-quality-and-global-collaborations-insights-from-japan/

(Japan/New START) Japan hails agreement on New START as important step towards nuclear disarmament (TASS)

At the same time, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary noted that a broader structure on arms control was needed in order to achieve a nuclear-weapons-free...