19/10/2020
The Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC), an Indian-Japanese collaborative vision regarding development, connectivity and cooperation between Asia and Africa, was announced in 2017.
Japan
Françoise NICOLAS
Senior Research Fellow and Director of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies
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Céline PAJON
Research Fellow, Head of Japan Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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John SEAMAN
Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies
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Claude MEYER
Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies
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05/10/2020
With the resignation of Prime Minister Abe, the future of Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy has been called into question. Abe was indeed one of the key architects of this vision<...>
15/07/2020
Japan’s Space Program: Shifting Away from “Non-Offensive” Purposes? Asie.Visions, No. 115, July 2020
Japan’s space program has evolved greatly since the end of the Cold War, driven by a rapidly changing geopolitical environment and tailored by the emergence of an “intra-alliance hedging strategy”.
15/05/2020
This essay offers a general assessment of Japan’s performance in the 2019 G20 and G7 Summits, held respectively in Osaka, Japan and Biarritz, France and looks at how Tokyo coordinated with its European partners (The European Union (EU) institutions and the EU Member States) in these...
07/05/2020
In February 2020, the Ifri Center for Asian Studies and the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) held a conference on the Asian security environment.
Asia - Southeast Asia - China - Japan - Korean Peninsula
26/02/2020
The multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been of the utmost importance for Japan’s trade policy.
19/12/2019
What does Japan want in the Indo-Pacific? It can be tough to tell, because at the moment, Tokyo seems to be pursuing incompatible aims.
12/12/2019
South East Asia is an area of utmost importance for Japan’s economic, political and security interests, amounting to “a core strategic interest” for Tokyo.
Asia - Southeast Asia - Japan
26/06/2019
On June 26, French President Emmanuel Macron will make his first, what is deemed to be a long overdue visit to Japan, a year after his previous travels to Asia led him to China (January 2018), India (March 2018), and Australia (May 2018).
18/04/2019
Japan’s policies in post-Soviet Central Asia, similarly to its actions in other Asian subregions, have often been interpreted recently as reactions to China’s advances – in particular, the Belt and Road Initiative. This first impression can be misleading.
from 08:30 to 10:00
- Videoconference
Rethinking Economic Security in the (Post) COVID-19 World
The crisis of the COVID-19 has highlighted the risks of an excessive dependence on one single economic partner.
Economy - Asia - Southeast Asia - Japan
from 10:30 to 11:30
- Videoconference
Technological Revolution and Regional Order in East Asia Webinar Series
Against an increasingly tense backdrop of geopolitical competition, a new wave of rapid technological change is likely to transform the regional landscape of East Asia.
30
Nov
2020
from 10:30 to 11:30
- Videoconference
Conversation on Technological Change and its Implications, with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister, Taiwan Videoconference
To conclude our webinar series on "Technological Revolution and Regional Order in East Asia", we will host Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, to discuss the scope of...
13
Oct
2020
from 09:30 to 10:30
- Videoconference
Japan After Shinzo Abe: What Diplomatic Legacy? Videoconference
A videoconference around Tomohiko Taniguchi, Former Special Adviser to the Cabinet of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Abe’s primary foreign policy speechwriter.
15
Sep
2020
from 09:00 to 11:15
- Videoconference
Japan’s Cyber-Security Strategy: From the Olympics to the World
Hosting mega sports events like the Olympics raises a variety of challenges.
10
Dec
2019
from 09:30 to 12:15
- Ifri Conferences
The New EU-Japan Partnership: What Lies Ahead? Conference
In December 2018, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) were formally adopted, entering into force in February 2019 and opening an era of unprecedented cooperation between the two players.
07
Nov
2019
from 09:15 to 16:30
- Ifri Conferences
The US-China Rivalry: Adjusting Strategies in Asia and Europe Conference
The deepening strategic rivalry between the United States and China has repositioned geopolitics at the center of the international system today.
Asia - Southeast Asia - China - Japan - Korean Peninsula - Europe
06
Sep
2019
from 09:30 to 12:15
- Ifri Conferences
The Franco-Japanese Cooperation in Africa after the G7 and TICAD 7
If some African countries are on their way to achieving dynamic economic growth, many are also still struggling with a lack of economic and social infrastructure, latent governance issues and often complex and risky security environments.
05
Jun
2019
from 09:30 to 18:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
G7 / Think Tank7 Summit G7 Engagement Group
The Think Thank 7 (T7) is an engagement group that brings together the leading Think Tanks from the G7 countries in order to analyze and make recommendations on key issues of the G7 presidency.
03
Jun
2019
from 09:30 to 12:30
- Ifri Conferences
Ahead of the G20 and G7 Summits: Debating Global Governance on Trade and Digital Affairs
This year Japan hosts the G20 Summit that will take place in Osaka on June 28-29 and France chairs the G7 Summit, to be held in Biarritz end of August.These two meetings will be of crucial importance, as multilateralism is undermined by unilateral and protectionist practices and new...
16/07/2019
Officially, Japan has “national security” concerns about technology exports to South Korea. Unofficially, World War II still casts an ugly shadow.
06/05/2019
The Think Thank 7 (T7) is an engagement group that brings together the leading Think Tanks from the G7 countries in order to analyze and make recommendations on key issues of the G7 presidency.
12/07/2018
A dialogue with Yoshiji NOGAMI, Vice-Chairman of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).
09/02/2018
Tokyo is ramping up international partnerships and investments to offer an alternative to Beijing’s signature foreign-policy project. For the first time in 15 years, Japan’s foreign minister last month paid a visit to the tiny island nation of Sri Lanka, shepherding a dozens-strong delegation...
28/09/2017
On Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved Japan’s parliament, the starting pistol for the snap elections he called a year early to get over a “national crisis.”
08/02/2017
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first foreign leader to meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump after his election. On Friday, Feb. 10, he will meet with President Trump, before spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
26/02/2016
Despite the political tensions that oppose Japan, China and South Korea, recent months have seen a certain rapprochement between Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. The first trilateral summit in three years was held in November 2015.
Asia - China - Japan - Korean Peninsula
26/02/2016
Despite the political tensions that oppose Japan, China and South Korea, recent months have seen a certain rapprochement between Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. The first trilateral summit in three years was held in November 2015.
Asia - China - Japan - Korean Peninsula
26/02/2016
Despite the political tensions that oppose Japan, China and South Korea, recent months have seen a certain rapprochement between Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. The first trilateral summit in three years was held in November 2015.
Asia - China - Japan - Korean Peninsula