Implementing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s vision of a more regionally and internationally engaged foreign policy is essential to the future of Japan and the region. Abe has distanced his ...

Over the past decade, intensifying Chinese and North Korean threats to Japan have accelerated a long-brewing shift in what Oros calls Japan’s “security identity,” from a country that can never use ...

Section 2 covers the changes in the post-Plaza Accord foreign exchange policy and recent discussions ... status and challenges are included in conclusion. The dawn of the 21st century was also a ...

examines the Japanese industrial and fiscal-monetary policies and evaluates its achievements and limits from a historical perspective. Although the period that was also referred to as the "lost decade ...

Below, we review the structure and initiatives now shaping Japan’s policymaking. Primary Actors in Japanese Semiconductor Policy Japanese government officials, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet, ...