“His fundamental principle … is making sure that Japan is able to work with regional partners in a way that it doesn’t completely rely on the United States to be engaged in a conflict with China. To be able to independently, in a sense, prepare for the worst scenario,” Nishimura said.
“The new leader needs to be a fresh face, whether that means young or not associated with Kishida, and reform-minded, showing voters that the party will change”
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Washington, D.C.; Taipei, Taiwan; Tokyo, Japan | June 20 — The Asia Group (TAG) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new office in Taipei and the appointment of Lieutenant General (Ret.) Koichi Isobe and Ambassador Yasuhiko Yoshida as Senior Advisors for Japanese defense and economic policy, respectively. The Asia Group’s strategic growth in
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While Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s first term approaches to trade with Japan showed many similarities, their approaches to security cooperation differed significantly. Trump urged Japan to strengthen its defense capabilities without further committing U.S. resources and grumbled about the expense of U.S. support to Japan’s defense.
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Japan must prepare not just for Trump 2.0’s possible impact on U.S.-Japan ties, NATO, the Ukraine war and the World Trade Organization. Tokyo must also consider how a second Donald Trump presidency could change Japan’s abiding existential strategy of standing with the U.S. on most matters while maintaining steady, stable business ties with China.
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Kishida decided to retain Secretary-General Motegi, to box him in and make it more difficult for him to mount a presidential bid next year.
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Over the past three decades, Japan has battled persistent economic stagnation, reckoned with depopulation, rising inequality, voter disengagement, and endured threats to Asia’s long peace. Remarkably, Japan has emerged from its “lost decades” unscathed from the populist wave that today permeates several major democracies and as a far more consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific. The country has reinvented itself as a network power to overcome the harsh realities of diminishing relative capabilities. How has Japan accomplished this reinvention? What lessons can be learned from how it has coped with slow growth, adverse demographics, adjustment to economic globalization, and the emergence of a powerful and assertive China? And how can Japan handle the hurdles ahead?
At their trilateral summit at Camp David on August 18, U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced significant new steps toward a lasting structure for trilateral security cooperation. While their pledges fell short of a formal security agreement, the leaders committed to initiatives that demonstrate their shared geopolitical and economic security concerns and to enhance trilateral cooperation mechanisms, especially by strengthening the fragile Japan-South Korea leg of the triangle.
Kathy Matsui is a General Partner of MPower Partners, Japan’s first ESG-focused global venture capital fund. She is also an external board director at Fast Retailing, at adjunct professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Management, and an advisory board member at the University of Tokyo. She was previously vice chair and chief Japan strategist
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He argued that Japan’s drug pricing system stands in the way of leading pharmaceutical companies seeking to bring innovative medicines and treatments to Japan.
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