17/05/2017
This paper documents new features of Japan's diplomacy that tends to gradually integrate Africa into Japan's strategic interests.
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
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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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26/04/2017
This paper provides an overview of the womenomics strategy launched by Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and shows how a plan designed to mitigate Japan’s demographic crises and labor shortages also evolved into a foreign relations strategy to help manage Japan’s reputation abroad on gender...
10/03/2017
Japan’s cyberdefenses remain underdeveloped compared to the country’s great reliance on information and communications technology. Despite Japan’s initial slow response to the security challenges emerging from cyberspace, this paper posits that cybersecurity under the administration of...
06/02/2017
Despite being geographically distant, France and Japan share a number of converging interests.
31/01/2017
This essay examines the need for growing coordination between the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) to better cope with gray-zone situations.
01/12/2016
Coping with “gray zone” situations has in recent years become the core security challenge for Japan. Since September 2012, Beijing has been challenging Japan’s sovereign control of the Senkaku Islands by regularly sending law-enforcement vessels into Japanese territorial waters and...
08/11/2016
Japan’s latest space policy is designed to support a more proactive US-Japan alliance role in containing China, and robustly defend Japan against North Korean ballistic missile threats.
Space - Security and Defense - Asia - Japan
28/07/2016
On Tuesday July 12th, after three years of deliberations, the Permanent Court of Arbitration finally delivered its verdict on the conflict opposing the Philippines and China over status of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The judgment is historic, as it goes far beyond the...
Asia - Southeast Asia - China - Japan
15/06/2016
China’s rise, US rebalancing in Asia, historic defense reforms in Japan, the adoption of new Guidelines for bilateral cooperation: the Japan-US alliance has reached a turning point in its history.
United States - Asia - Japan
10/06/2016
Tokyo is known as a pioneer throughout the history of Japan’s environmental policy, often being compared to California in the United States or Paris in France. Following the global trend of growing local initiatives tackling climate change, Tokyo introduced a cap-and-trade scheme in 2010 ahead...
29
Jan
2015
from 09:00 to 10:30
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
The Rise of China and East Asia’s Security The Evolving View from Japan
The rise of China and the responses formulated by its neighbors are key elements shaping the security environment in East Asia. China’s growing “assertiveness” since 2008, particularly in maritime East Asia, seems to have been further strengthened under the leadership of...
12
Sep
2014
from 09:00 to 18:00
- Ifri Conferences
The Asian Century: What International Norms and Practices? Conference held by the Ifri Center for Asian Studies
Disputed interpretations of the Law of the Sea
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02
Jul
2014
from 09:30 to 12:15
A New Cold War in East Asia? Japanese and French perspectives on strategic evolutions in East Asia
9:30-9:45 Welcome Remarks by Françoise NICOLAS, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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01
Apr
2014
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Japanese perspectives on political and security challenges in Asia
The rapid rise of China is changing the balance of power drastically in East Asia. What kind of new regional order will be born? What role should Japan take in the new environment?
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23
Sep
2013
from 09:00 to 10:30
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
The "New Asian Order" and the role of Japan
The rapid rise of China is changing the balance of power drastically in East Asia. What kind of new regional order will be born? What Role should Japan take in the new environment? Prof. Shinichi Kitaoka, President of International University of Japan, the chairman of Prime Minister Abe"s...
27
Nov
2012
from 11:00 to 13:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Leadership Change in East Asia and Implications for Regional Stability
Seminar with Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor, Kanagawa University and Fellow with JCIE (Japan Center for International Exchanges), Marie-Orange Rivé-Lasan, Professor, University Paris Diderot and Alice Ekman, Associate Research Fellow,...
Regions - Asia - China - Japan - Korean Peninsula
13
Nov
2012
from 07:45 to 16:30
- Ifri Conferences
Trading Freely with East Asia
In 2006, the European Commission launched an ambitious plan to conclude a new generation of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Asian markets as part of its Global Europe strategy. Today the use of such FTAs is all the more important since negotiations at the WTO are stalled, but also more...
Regions - Asia - Southeast Asia - Japan
21
Jun
2012
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
The growing Chinese presence in Japan - What impact on the bilateral relationship?
Seminar with Reinhard Drifte, Emeritus Professor at the Newcastle University, UK. Chair: Céline Pajon, Research Fellow, Ifri Center for Asian Studies.
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30
Mar
2011
from 18:00 to 19:30
- Ifri Conferences
Japan in the aftermath of the catastrophy: What consequences for the energy and economic policies
Japan has just experienced its most serious crisis since 1945. Beyond the drama of human suffering, this dual natural and nuclear catastrophe will have profound consequences for the country's economic, industrial and energy strategies.
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22
Mar
2011
25/01/2014
A la tête du gouvernement depuis plus d’un an, Shinzo Abe entend redonner à son pays fierté et puissance face à la Chine. Entre politique de relance économique et regain de dynamisme diplomatique… en passant par un certain recours au nationalisme…le Japon muscle sa posture...
12/01/2014
La Chine et la Corée du Sud crient avec raison à la provocation du Japon dont le Premier ministre Shinzo Abe a effectué le 26 décembre 2013 une visite au sanctuaire Yasukuni.
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17/10/2012
Leading European scholars have urged Japan to follow Germany's example and "fully recognize the terrible human sufferings" imposed on Chinese and other Asians during World War II, saying such a recognition would be a very important element in solving the Beijing-Tokyo...
26/09/2012
La bourse de Tokyo était encore en baisse ce mercredi 26 septembre. En cause : les tensions persistantes entre la Chine et le Japon.
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