TAG Associate Rintaro Nishumura appeared at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan to discuss the upcoming general election and the future of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
The Asia Group (TAG) has released an update to its 2023 white paper “Observations on Drug Pricing and Innovation in Japan” which analyzes the outstanding policy challenge of the “zero co-factor” rule under the cost-based price calculation method, which continues to undermine the Japanese government’s efforts to restore the country’s drug discovery capabilities and create a robust pharmaceutical industry ecosystem.
Park Jin-wan, Nonresident James A. Kelly Korea Fellow at #PacificForum, and Rintaro Nishimura, a Tokyo-based Associate with The Asia Group, have co-authored a compelling article for The Korea Times titled “Future of Korea-Japan Relations Under PM Ishiba.” Their analysis delves into the complexities of Korea-Japan relations and evaluates how Prime Minister Ishiba’s leadership could shape
TAG Associate Rintaro Nishimura co-authored a piece for the Korea Economic Institute of America about the U.S.-ROK-Japan trilateral legislative dialogue. This was part of a follow-up to his participation in the government-sponsored Trilateral Youth Summit (hosted by East-West Center) back in July.
“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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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?
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