By Sophie Welsh

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This panel featured two leading policymakers and experts on U.S. and Japanese foreign economic policies, Dr. Aaron Forsberg, Minister Counselor for Economic and Scientific Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and Mr. Rokuichiro Michii, Ambassador and Deputy Chief Negotiator for the TPP in Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat. They examined the two governments’ responses to recent challenges of the global economy, including...

By Nicholas A.R. Fraser

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Over the past decade, the Syrian refugee crisis has created one of the largest outflows of forced migrants since the Rwandan genocide, and the largest refugee crisis since the end of the Second World War. While government decisions to host large numbers of Syrian refugees garnered public support in countries like Germany and Canada, other countries such as Japan pledged to send aid, but refused...

By Sophie Welsh

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The development of North Korea’s missile and nuclear capabilities have emerged as one of the key security challenges in East Asia. At the same time, the relations between two U.S. allies—Japan and South Korea—has been marked by tensions due to historical and territorial issues.

In a panel discussion, Junya Nishino (...

by Sophie Welsh

As the strategic rivalry between the U.S. and China has intensified in the Indo-Pacific region, the U.S. allies have had to adapt their own foreign and national defense policies. Two practitioners and a scholar from Japan spoke in a panel in February 2022 to analyze such security policy dynamics. Tokuhiro Ikeda (Vice Admiral, ret.) spoke about current developments in Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) in the context...